We Are Pirates - Couverture souple

Handler, Daniel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1408845156 ISBN 13 : 9781408845158

Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2016

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Honest and funny, dark and painful, We Are Pirates reads like the result of a nightmarish mating experiment between Joseph Heller and Captain Jack Sparrow.? It’s the strangest, most brilliant offering yet from the mind behind Lemony Snicket (Neil Gaiman)

Daniel Handler turns whimsy into wisdom and the fantastic into the great. He is, of course, a genius (Lorrie Moore)

We Are Pirates will dazzle, disturb and delight you. It might even do things to you that don’t start with the letter D, like remind you what it's like to be young, or convince you that Daniel Handler can do anything (Jess Walter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins)

There is no writer quite like Daniel Handler. Somehow he manages to work at the intersection of irony and wonderment, whimsy and menace – a space I’m not sure I knew existed until I read his work (Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad)

It’s been a long time since I read a book quite as crazy as We Are Pirates. It manages to be funny, weird, dark and moving all at once. It’s a wild and anarchic ride, as gleefully out-of-step with much literary fiction as a pirate galleon amid a fleet of sailing dinghies, and all the better for it. I loved it (Matt Haig, author of The Humans)

I finished it. I devoured it. I loved it! We Are Pirates is extraordinary. I sat there wondering how something could be so dispassionate, and yet so heartfelt at the same time. And then, the next second, it made me laugh out loud. Remarkable story, remarkable characters, remarkable prose. I’ll carry it in my head for ever (Russell T Davies)

A macabre, darkly human portrayal of family dynamics and growing up in a world running low on adventure ... Handler, as Lemony Snicket, has always been popular with adult readers as well as YAs, and that situation should prove true of this new novel (Booklist)

A “pirate story for grownups”, about a teenage girl causing mayhem in San Francisco bay, from the author more commonly known as Lemony Snicket (Guardian Ones to Watch 2015)

Beneath all the trappings of make-believe and fancy dress, there is a poignant, serious story about a girl’s need to find her true self, shackled to her desire to escape from the world – and the irreconcilable, sometimes bloody conflict between those two yearnings ... Although We Are Pirates is as ragged and slapdash as its crew, its voyage is no less joyful or defiant (Daily Telegraph)

This, his fifth novel for adults, retains the whimsy, intrigue and high camp of his children’s fiction ... Silly but poignant **** (Sunday Telegraph)

Biographie de l'auteur :

Daniel Handler is the author of the novels The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth, Adverbs and, most recently, the Michael J. Printz Honor-winning Why We Broke Up, a collaboration with noted illustrator Maira Kalman. He also worked with Kalman on the book Girls Standing on Lawns and Hurry Up and Wait (May 2015). Under the name Lemony Snicket he has written the best-selling books series All The Wrong Questions as well as A Series of Unfortunate Events, which has sold more than 60 million copies and was the basis of a feature film. Snicket is also the creator of several picture books, including the Charlotte Zolotow Award-winning The Dark, illustrated by Jon Klassen. His newest picture book is 29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy illustrated by Lisa Brown. Born and raised in San Francisco, Handler attended Wesleyan University and returned to his hometown after graduating. He co-founded the magazine American Chickens! with illustrator Lisa Brown (with whom he soon became smitten), and they moved to New York City, where Handler eventually sold his first novel after working as a book and film critic for several newspapers. He continued to write, and he and his wife returned to San Francisco, where they now live with their son. Handler works extensively in music, serving as the adjunct accordionist for the music group The Magnetic Fields and collaborating with composer Nathaniel Stookey on a piece commissioned and recorded by the San Francisco Symphony, entitled "The Composer Is Dead", which has been performed all over the world and is now a book with CD. Other Snicket titles include the picture book 13 Words (also in collaboration with Kalman), as well as Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Biography, The Beatrice Letters, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid, and two books for Christmas: The Lump of Coal and The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming: a Christmas story. His criticism has appeared in The New York Times, Newsday, San Francisco Chronicle, Chickfactor, and The Believer, where he is writing a regular column exploring the Nobel Prize in Literature titled “What The Swedes Read.” He has worked as a screenwriter on the adaptation of A Series Of Unfortunate Events, as well as the independent films Rick and Kill The Poor. Current projects include a commission from the Royal Shakespeare Company on a stage musical in collaboration with songwriter Stephin Merritt, and a fifth novel for adults titled We Are Pirates (Feb 2015). He is also working on the continuing Snicket series, All The Wrong Questions, of which the newest is File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents. The next book in the series will be Shouldn't You Be in School? (September 2014).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1408845156
• ISBN 13: 9781408845158
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288