The Heart Broke In - Couverture souple

Meek, James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0857862928 ISBN 13 : 9780857862921

Editeur : Canongate Books, 2013

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'Addictive . . . Meek is a novelist of Dostoevskyan intensity . . . encompassing blackmail, murder and sexual infidelity. You have to admire the scope and ambition of this operatic saga' Guardian

'A book about how to be good in bad times' BBC Radio 4

'The Heart Broke In has a Dickensian cast list [and] Meek's range, humour and boldness are a joy' Observer

'This is a big juicy slab of a book, as thrilling and nourishing as a Victorian three-parter' Spectator

'A moral thriller' Philip Pullman

'Britain's answer to Don DeLillo . . . Where DeLillo sustains a brittle, glassy idiom, Meek, like Tolstoy, surrenders to the human . . . A complex meditation on death and time and the family' Independent

'One of the country's finest writers' GQ

'James Meek's new novel has all the urgent readability of his previous work combined with a wide-ranging vision of social and personal responsibility that's very rare in current fiction. I suppose we could call it a moral thriller. Whatever we call it, I was enormously impressed' Philip Pullman --Philip Pullman

Biographie de l'auteur :

James Meek was born in London in 1962 and grew up in Dundee. His novel The People's Act of Love (2005) won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, the SAC Book of the Year Award, was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and has been published in more than thirty countries. His novel We Are Now Beginning our Descent (2008) won the Prince Maurice Prize. He is the author of two other novels and two collections of short stories. His journalism has won a number of British and international awards. He lives in London.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Canongate Books
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0857862928
• ISBN 13: 9780857862921
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 560