Bless 'em All - Couverture souple

Saddler, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0720612829 ISBN 13 : 9780720612820

Editeur : Peter Owen Publishers, 2007

Synopsis

"Blees 'Em All" pays tribute to the Londoners of the Blitz, revealing that they were not heroic in the conventional sense and that most regarded the Blitz as an intrusion, a nuisance to be endured. With its wealth of characters that leap off the page, this highly entertaining novel exposes the misplaced optimism, naked opportunism and matrimonial misdemenour in a comic tour de force of considerable verve, perceptiveness and period authority.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'Sarah Waters take note. This is how to write a Blitz novel. In last year's disappointing Night Watch, Waters tried to portray both the drama and the drabness of war-time London and ended up simply writing drably. Saddler successfully interweaves the tales of a collection of lower class Londoners, and their connections - through work, love and lust - with a pair of relatively well-to-do brothers in the book trade. The bombs begin to fall. Some characters end badly, some well and some, literally, soldier on. Saddler has a touch of the Orwells about his pure, clear prose-style, which is particularly effective in painting London itself as a living backdrop to this moving story of a mundane world suddenly run mad.' **** Joe Cushley, What's On in London --What's On in London

Whatever it is that you normally look for in a good book, Allen Saddler's Bless 'em All is guaranteed to have it. Jam-packed with humour, murder, lust and social history, this novel will surely have every reader's eyes popping from start to finish. A tiny bit Desperate Housewives, a tad Eastenders and a pinch Midsomer Murders, Bless 'em All is a superior, unisex version of a soap opera. This engaging novel will suit anyone who is just a little bit nosey.' Big Issue --Big Issue

Présentation de l'éditeur

Maurice Green is a book wholesaler; he is conscientous and hardworking. He has a reputation to uphold. Bernard Green is his brother; sleazy and disreptutable, his part of the business takes in the Leicester Square run selling backhand copies of D.H. Lawrence and photographic art to places in Soho. After an inadvertent (In Bernard s case very advertent) outing to an illicit speakeasy, the pair meet Bunty and Betty, the former a blonde bombshell, a creamy French sponge smelling of Turkish Delight who also happens to be deaf and dumb, the latter a young housewife so naïve about what goes on at a dance club that Maurice ends up giving her a job out of pity. Tim is Bunty s husband. Short, stumpy and surly, Tim works for the Waterboard and pretends to have no idea about Bunty s outings with men in smart cars and tailormade suits. Jimmy answered an ad that read Smart Boy Wanted and now works at Green s, collecting and delivering books from the publishing houses on Paternoster Row and Warwick Square, all in the shadow of St Pauls and all doomed . . . These characters and many more are thrown together into a riotous wartime tale of prostitution, romance, murder and the good old fashioned selling of books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Owen Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0720612829
• ISBN 13: 9780720612820
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 220
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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