Paradise News - Couverture rigide

Lodge, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1560544503 ISBN 13 : 9781560544500

Editeur : Thorndike Pr, 1992

Synopsis

Book by Lodge David

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

'Further proof that Lodge is master of subtle scintillating satire' Daily Mail

'Amusing, accessible, intelligent' Financial Times

Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister it feels more like purgatory than paradise.

Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to hospital after an unfortunate accident, Bernard is beginning to regret ever coming to Haiwaii. Until, that is, he stumbles on something he had given up hope of finding: the astonishing possibility of love.

'The poignant personal relations and the Hawaiian way of life are recorded with the sardonic perception of a latter-day Evelyn Waugh' Spectator

Présentation de l'éditeur

Paradise, tourist style. It's a very long way from home.

Bernard Walsh is in Hawaii on family business, escorting his querulous father to the bedside of a long-forgotten aunt. His mission transports him from quiet obscurity in Rummridge, England, to a lush tropical playground, from cloistered solitude into the unfamiliar company of package tourists: honeymooners; young women looking for Mr. Nice; families nuclear and fissile. But it is the island itself that holds the most astonishing surprises, as an accidental encounter opens up to Bernard possibilities of life, and love, never dreamed of in his normally overcast habitat. Paradise News is an enchanting--and very funny--portrait of the late flowering of an honest man.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Thorndike Pr
• Date d'édition: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1560544503
• ISBN 13: 9781560544500
• Reliure: Relié