The Devil I Know - Couverture souple

Kilroy, Claire

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 080212237X ISBN 13 : 9780802122377

Editeur : Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014

Synopsis

In The Devil I Know, award-winning writer Claire Kilroy delivers a delicious novel, a cautionary tale of financial excess set during the Irish property bubble.

Tristram St. Lawrence has not been home for years--ever since he missed his mother's deathbed in favor of going on a bender, the thirteenth Earl of Howth is not welcome in the family castle. Now sober, he lives in self-imposed exile, and his main confidant is his sponsor, a mysterious businessman known only as M. Deauville.

One day, when his plane is unexpectedly diverted to Dublin, Tristram ends up where he started, and an old acquaintance, a bully from his school days who's now making a name in construction, pitches to Tristram an ambitious development project. The trouble is, M. Deauville thinks it's a good idea, and before Tristram knows it he's settled in Howth under his father's baleful gaze and is up to his neck in funding proposals, zoning approvals, and the personal life of his business partner.

A wry and timely skewering of a country, a man, and an entire international financial system descended into madness, The Devil I Know establishes Claire Kilroy as a vigorous and wonderful new talent.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile

He made a crooked deal and he blew a crooked pile

He dug a crooked hole

And he sank the crooked isle

And they all went to hell in a stew of crooked bile.

The Devil I Know is a thrilling novel of greed and hubris, set against the backdrop of a brewing international debt crisis. Told by Tristram, in the form of a mysterious testimony, it recounts his return home after a self-imposed exile only to find himself trapped as a middle man played on both sides - by a grotesque builder he's known since childhood on the one hand, and a shadowy businessman he's never met on the other. Caught between them, as an overblown property development begins in his home town of Howth, it follows Tristram's dawning realisation that all is not well.

From a writer unafraid to take risks, The Devil I Know is a bold, brilliant and disturbing piece of storytelling.

Revue de presse

'Smart, funny and stylish, and bang up to the minute. Reading it, one squirms in appalled recognition of the extremes of greed and foolishness of our time, which Claire Kilroy portrays with devilish accuracy.' --John Banville

'Dark, funny and wonderful: The Devil I Know is a shot through the heart of the Irish boom.' --Anne Enright

'A riveting and brilliantly unnerving book. To read it is to be plunged right into the madness and obscenity of what has been done to Ireland - or what Ireland has done to itself. People wanted the boom-to-bust novel; well, here it is.' --Belinda McKeon

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080212237X
• ISBN 13: 9780802122377
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible