Honey - Couverture rigide

Wesker, Arnold

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0743268555 ISBN 13 : 9780743268554

Editeur : Scribner, 2005

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

Like many young women, Beatie Bryant has finally found her own voice. But what now should she do wih it?
The daughter of Norfolk farm labourers, Beatie has put herself through St Hilda's college, Oxford, and finally moved to London to find a job. She has emerged a different, stronger person. For the first time, she feels like a fully-rounded human being.
And yet the outside world refuses to treat her so: her encounters there are confusing and contradictory. The flattering old man who chats her up in Shepherd's Market, the savage interview, the quirky bookbinder, hidden in her little shop, make her queston herself once again. Even a love affair and the extraordinary career she stumbles upon only serve to parallel this fear of fragmentation; while other, more terrible trials, await her.

Written with a playwright's eye for scene and dialogue, revisiting a character from one of his best-loved plays, ROOTS, HONEY is an extraordinary addition to Arnold Wesker's brilliant career.
'Provides immediate and lasting satisfaction...a novel full of feeling and intellectual substance: a sprawling, unconventional love story' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
'A benign, even sweet, story showing that a whole life can be changed by a chance conversation wtih a stranger on a train, that virtue is rewarded and endings are happy' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'The book is plump...with love. Wesker imparts the same tenderness of observation to London as he does to individuals' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
'Tender, touching and acutely observed...a testament to the daring of one of this country's most prominent playwrights' FINANCIAL TIMES
'HONEY has moments of real passing beauty' DAILY TELEGRAPH

Revue de presse :

'Wesker's strengths, as ever, lie in the depiction of relationships' DAILY MAIL
'A benign, even sweet, story showing that a whole life can be changed by a chance conversation with a stranger on a train, that virtue is rewarded and endings are happy' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 2/10
'Honey is a spirited novel, alive with passion and thought' OBSERVER 2/10
'Snappy bits of vintage Wesker' THE TIMES
'Honey has moments of real passing beauty' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Wesker famously wrote that "politics is living'; and Beatie is the political life-force made manifest. She has an aura of self-confident determination which engages the attention of total strangers and in the novel's key encounter she meets Manfred, an elderly Jewish gentleman who after a brief encounter informs her: "The world is divided between people who are immediate and those who are hard work. You, my dear young woman, are immediate". ' GUARDIAN
'An acutely observed and thought-provoking read' FT 15/10
'Tender, touching and acutely observed' IN-STYLE
'A novel full of feeling and intellectual substance: a sprawling, unconventional love story, a collection of fifty-three successful conceits, a studied reflection of post-Thatcher Britain' TLS 25/11
'The time is the 1980s, the place London, the heroine, Beatie Bryant - resurrected from Arnold Wesker's superb play roots (1959) to star in this debut novel (published when Wesker was 72). Despite being catapulted across a decade, the idealistic Beatie is much as we left her: young, beautiful and searching for a "voice" of her own'
Daily Telegraph 5/8

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Scribner
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0743268555
• ISBN 13: 9780743268554
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 448