Hawthorn & Child - Couverture souple

Ridgway, Keith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0811221660 ISBN 13 : 9780811221665

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2013

Synopsis

Hawthorn and his partner, Child, are called to the scene of a mysterious shooting in North London. The only witness is unreliable, the clues are scarce, and the victim, a young man who lives nearby, swears he was shot by a ghost car. While Hawthorn battles with fatigue and strange dreams, the crime and the narrative slip from his grasp and the stories of other Londoners take over: a young pickpocket on the run from his boss; an editor in possession of a disturbing manuscript; a teenage girl who spends her days at the Tate Modern; a pack of wolves; and a madman who has been infected by the former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Haunting these disparate lives is the shadowy figure of Mishazzo, an elusive crime magnate who may be running the city, or may not exist at all.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Keith Ridgway is a Dubliner living in London. His previous novels include A Shock (winner of the 2022 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction), Hawthorn & Child, and Animals. He has also been awarded the Prix Fémina Étranger and Premier Roman Étranger, the O Henry Award, and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His books have been acclaimed "ingeniously slippery" (Lucy Scholes, New York Times Book Review), "bleak, hilarious, chilling and hopeful" (Louie Conway, Vanity Fair), and "like Finnegans Wake, only readable" (John Self, London Times).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0811221660
• ISBN 13: 9780811221665
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible