The Bellwether Revivals - Couverture souple

Wood, Benjamin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0857207407 ISBN 13 : 9780857207401

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

Bright, bookish Oscar Lowe has escaped the urban estate where he was raised and made a new life for himself amid the colleges and spires of Cambridge. He has grown to love the quiet routine of his life as a care assistant at a local nursing home, where he has forged a close friendship with the home's most ill-tempered resident, Dr. Paulsen. But when he meets and falls in love with Iris Bellwether, a beautiful and enigmatic medical student at King's College, Oscar is drawn into her world of scholarship and privilege, and soon becomes embroiled in the strange machinations of her brilliant but troubled brother, Eden, who believes he can adapt the theories of a forgotten Baroque composer to heal people with music. Eden's self-belief knows no bounds, and as he draws his sister and closed circle of friends into a series of disturbing experiments to prove himself right, Oscar realises the extent of the danger facing them all...

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

THERE IS NO GREAT GENIUS WITHOUT SOME NOTE OF MADNESS
'In prose that's unfussy but effortlessly vivid, filled with nice descriptive flourishes [...] Wood's confident, sometimes creepy novel draws you in ... and then, once you're inside, holds on, ever tightening its grip' Daniel Hahn, Independent on Sunday
'Hypnotic and mesmerizing ... About a privileged set of Cambridge students and one brilliant music scholar on the edge of insanity, it has echoes of Brideshead, Donna Tartt or Naomi Alderman's The Lessons. Really very special' Sarah Broadhurst, The Bookseller
'An accomplished novel, suffused with intelligence and integrity' Samantha Harvey, Guardian
'Boasts a 21st century spin on a genre that once upon a time seemed only to celebrate lofty minded or louche toffs' Mariella Frostrup, Open Book, BBC Radio 4
'An ambitious exploration of doubt, hope and faith' Lee Randall, Scotsman
'Read it. Quite a debut' Patrick Neate
'Eden is as offbeat and infuriating a creation as Sebastian Flyte ... its inventiveness and execution make this debut a compulsive read' Malcolm Forbes, The National (UAE)
'A stunningly good debut novel ... Wood writes with vigour, precision and intensity, with a story that will keep readers up all night' Steven Galloway, author of The Cellist of Sarajevo

Biographie de l'auteur :

Benjamin Wood was born in 1981 and grew up in north-west England. In 2004, he was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to attend the MFA Creative Writing Programme at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where he was also fiction editor of the Canadian literary journal PRISM International. Benjamin is now a lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London. The Bellwether Revivals is his first novel.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0857207407
• ISBN 13: 9780857207401
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432