February - Couverture rigide

Moore, Lisa

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 088784202X ISBN 13 : 9780887842023

Editeur : House of Anansi Pr, 2010

Synopsis

Book by Moore Lisa

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

'Moore's wonderful fluidity of approach is noticeable right down to the level of her individual sentences. It has been a joy indeed to discover Lisa Moore' Daily Telegraph

'Moore slips [small insights] in so gently you barely feel them, turning a sad story simply told into a minor-key triumph' Guardian

In 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine's night storm. Helen O'Mara, pregnant with her fourth child, receives a call telling her that her husband, Cal, has drowned. A quarter of a century later, Helen is woken by another phone call. It is her wayward son, John, calling from another time zone to tell her that he has made a girl pregnant and he wants Helen to decide what to do. As John grapples with what it might mean to be a father, Helen realises that she must shake off her decades of mourning in order to help.

With grace and precision, and an astonishing ability to render the precise details of her characters' physical and emotional worlds, Lisa Moore reveals the story that unfurls around those two moments.

'Moore's ability to write originally and passionately about love and death relies on her eye for detail and her psychologically acute portrayals. This may be beautiful writing but it is never without the necessary bite that makes it real' Scottish Herald

'Domestic fiction at its finest... Moore depicts her characters with compassion and respect... Despite the chill of its title, February exudes the warmth and joyousness of a much sunnier month' Daily Mail

Revue de presse

"Lisa Moore's work is passionate, gritty, lucid and beautiful. She has a great gift" (Anne Enright)

"Moore's wonderful fluidity of approach is noticeable right down to the level of her individual sentences. It has been a joy indeed to discover Lisa Moore" (Daily Telegraph)

"An astonishing writer. She brings to her pages what we are always seeking in fiction and only find in the best of it: a magnetizing gift for revealing how the earth feels, looks, tastes, smells, and an unswerving instinct for what's important in life" (Richard Ford)

"Heart-warming...domestic fiction at its finest... Moore depicts her characters with compassion and respect... Despite the chill of its title, February exudes the warmth and joyousness of a much sunnier world" (Michael Arditti Daily Mail)

"Moore slips [small insights] in so gently you barely feel them, turning a sad story simply told into a minor-key triumph" (Guardian)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: House of Anansi Pr
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 088784202X
• ISBN 13: 9780887842023
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 310
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible