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This is a novel that tells its story back to front, whose main character we meet when he is down on his luck, in his local French restaurant drowning his sorrows in the depths of two bottles of vintage Petrus. It hasn't taken all that long for Wilberforce, as we will only know him, to reach this point, and we see it, almost in slow motion, from the moment it begins -- that one fateful day when he takes an unexpected detour into the country when he is driving home on a twilight evening. He drives along a lane beside a high stone wall, towards a house which had been signposted from the main road: Caerlyon Hall. He was breaking his routine, and it felt refreshing. The lane headed towards an enormous grey house, at the back of which a board was positioned by the side of track: in gold Palace script on a burgundy-coloured background it announced 'Frances Black: Fine Bordeaux Wines. Visitors Welcome' and Wilberforce remembers feeling a little like Alice must have felt when she found the table at the bottom of the rabbit hole, with the little bottle labelled 'Drink Me'.
Through Francis Black, Wilberforce develops a taste for fine wine, and a new set of friends, who fill him full of promise and affection and acceptance. And it is this new world, and Wilberforce's awkwardness within it, that contributes to his downfall, and to heartbreak.
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Review :
¿Remarkably, given the bleakness of both subject and hero, it is an incredibly good read.' (Marianne MacDonald DAILY TELEGRAPH)
What makes us want to find out about Wilberforce is Torday's wonderful prose - the same simple, clear writing that made Salmon Fishing so readable. (Susan Elderkin FINANCIAL TIMES)
he has a good feeling for character and a sly sense of humour (David Robson SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)
a well-told tale.. Torday wryly observes Wilberforce's descent (Paul Dunn THE TIMES)
grows more and more poignant as the novel progresses.. satisfyingly full-bodied and slips down a treat (Peter Parker SUNDAY TIMES)
marks him out as a writer of serious promise, whose achievements in this second novel hint at bigger, better works to come. (Fiona McCann IRISH TIMES)
Torday tells ths story in reverse, a familiar narrative device used effectively here (Shyamantha Asokan THE BIG ISSUE)
a really good book by a really talented writer (A BOOK A WEEK BLOGSPOT)
the pages practically turn themselves and the closing lines of the book, after such a heady brew, are so deliciously sobering (JOHN SELF ASYLUM BLOGSPOT)
the whole book is delightfully written.. Paul Torday is a remarkably original novelist (David Sexton EVENING STANDARD)
Book Description :
What makes us want to find out about Wilberforce is Torday's wonderful prose - the same simple, clear writing that made Salmon Fishing so readable. (Susan Elderkin FINANCIAL TIMES)
he has a good feeling for character and a sly sense of humour (David Robson SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)
a well-told tale.. Torday wryly observes Wilberforce's descent (Paul Dunn THE TIMES)
grows more and more poignant as the novel progresses.. satisfyingly full-bodied and slips down a treat (Peter Parker SUNDAY TIMES)
marks him out as a writer of serious promise, whose achievements in this second novel hint at bigger, better works to come. (Fiona McCann IRISH TIMES)
Torday tells ths story in reverse, a familiar narrative device used effectively here (Shyamantha Asokan THE BIG ISSUE)
a really good book by a really talented writer (A BOOK A WEEK BLOGSPOT)
the pages practically turn themselves and the closing lines of the book, after such a heady brew, are so deliciously sobering (JOHN SELF ASYLUM BLOGSPOT)
the whole book is delightfully written.. Paul Torday is a remarkably original novelist (David Sexton EVENING STANDARD)
The new novel from the bestselling author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
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- ÉditeurPhoenix
- Date d'édition2008
- ISBN 10 0753824612
- ISBN 13 9780753824610
- ReliurePaperback
- Nombre de pages320
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