Wreckage - Couverture souple

Griffiths, Niall

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1555974414 ISBN 13 : 9781555974411

Editeur : Graywolf Press, 2006

Synopsis

"[Wreckage] is a really remarkable piece of work. In the foreground is a caper story; in the background, a poetically expressed, apocalyptic history of Liverpool." --The Daily Telegraph

That woman with the grey hair and the specs and the kind face and the accent all like his grandmother, his nain in hospital and when she can talk that is what she sounds like. Don'thitmepleasedon'thitme. These women falling, sliding off this earth and not just from violence but the one commonality that turns life to a wreck--age.

After their botched and brutal mission to punish a one-armed man in a small Welsh village, Darren and Alastair head back to Liverpool to report to their mob boss. On the way home, Darren robs a rural postal office in Wales that serves as a bank and needlessly cracks the skull of a little old postal lady. Darren's eyes are full of fire. "We're rich, Alastair!" But Alastair sees his own nain in this elderly woman and falls victim to his conscience. Darren has finally gone too far.

As Alastair and Darren weave their way through the lowlife milieu of Liverpool, we hear many voices: the alky, the crack addict, the busman, the whores, the gangsters, and Darren's many victims. But we also hear the voices of their ancestors going back generations of unthinkable grief and poverty.

A fascinating sequel to Niall Griffiths' Stump, which Irvine Welsh calls "a magnificent novel of loss and obsession . . . [by] a major talent."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born in Liverpool in 1966, Niall Griffiths now lives in Wales. He has published five novels. Kelly + Victor and Stump are currently being filmed for television.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Graywolf Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1555974414
• ISBN 13: 9781555974411
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible