Little Caesar - Couverture souple

Wieringa, Tommy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0802120490 ISBN 13 : 9780802120496

Editeur : Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'Captivating - a modern day odyssey that leads us via porn stars and artists and houses falling off cliffs into the heart of a singular character.' --Kamila Shamsie, author of A God in Every Stone

'Tommy Wieringa's ambitious novel is a brilliant exploration of the uneasy transition from adolescence into adulthood the restlessness, yearning for stability, irrational decisions and erotic obsessions.' --The Independent

'Beautifully lyrical storytelling under a banner of gray skies and heavy hearts; one gorgeous, epic reminder than no matter what skeletons we have in our closet, we all try our best and our hardest to do well by the ones we love as Morrissey has sung: 'That's how people grow up.'' --Dan Kennedy, host of The Moth podcast

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Shortlisted for the IMPAC Award

Ludwig Unger's life held such promise. His parents were artists and, from an early age, his own musical genius had marked him out for a stellar career in the world's concert halls. In his mother's imagination, Ludwig is already on the way to surpassing her most ambitious dreams for him. But in reality, and for now, he's playing in local cocktail bars and the two of them are living alone in a storm-lashed clifftop cottage in East Anglia. As the forceful winter seas bash away at the coastline, and Ludwig plunks away at the piano, he begins to tell a woman his story: a story of beauty and decay, of a child's faith and parental betrayal, and of the importance, in the end, of self-sacrifice.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0802120490
• ISBN 13: 9780802120496
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 327