Crazy - Couverture rigide

Feaver, Jane

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1780331207 ISBN 13 : 9781780331201

Editeur : Corsair, 2021

Synopsis

Jane Feaver's fouth novel is a transporting and richly accomplished story about story-telling itself, blending fiction and memoir: a woman, in middle age, tells her story while the author herself roams the emotional landscape, asking questions about how we live, love, age and remember - or re-create - our selves

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jane Feaver is a novelist and short story writer. According to Ruth (Harvill Secker, 2007), was shortlisted for the Author's Club Best First Novel Award and the Dimplex Prize; Love Me Tender (Harvill Secker, 2009) was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. After twenty years working in the South West, Jane now lives in Edinburgh.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

'I was blown away by Crazy. A book without the slightest self-importance, fed by a subterranean stream one part anger to two parts love, and all done with the kind of skill and care that marks Jane Feaver out as a writer in the top rank. Brilliant' Andrew Miller



'Crazy is an uncompromisingly honest account of how we build our lives, and how, just as often, we manage to wreck them. Set amid the debris of a marriage which still haunts her, Feaver's beautifully written and startlingly frank book is so humane in its hard-won wisdom that every reader will recognise themselves in it. I finished Crazy in one sitting and then, some weeks later, I found myself reading it again cover to cover' Vesna Goldsworthy


'Jane Feaver's Crazy crackles with energy, integrity and a deep poetic sensibility. A raw and disturbing story of obsessive attraction, it obsesses the reader also, with the force of a haunting' Julia Copus

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

'I'm a woman on my own who has no idea what is wrong except that things are coming to a head, unattended things, habitual things, which have the additional weight of time attached, half a century's worth, tick-tock, tick-tock, the clapper jerking its head in readiness to strike: those footmen who'll be turned to mice, the carriage to a pumpkin.'

Crazy is an account of the origins and progress of an early, all-consuming relationship and the effect this relationship has had on the teller of the tale, Jane Feaver, who, in middle age, has become a teacher of creative writing. Assailed by physical symptoms she can't explain, she shuttles between her present predicament, where she tussles with what it means to write fiction at all, and the story in hand, an ill-fated tale of obsession compelling in its rawness and emotional candour. With humour and a poetic sturdiness that is by now characteristic of her writing, Jane returns to scenes of childhood whose after-effects can be seen to permeate the emotional landscape of what unfolds - marriage, childbirth and the vagaries of working life.

Questions of love, ambition and identity are examined in a novel that is, above all, about story-making itself, about who gets to tell the tale and how, and about the ways in which those stories we absorb and accrue become the ones that make us, and (if anything can) might redeem us, too.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Corsair
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1780331207
• ISBN 13: 9781780331201
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Corsair Memory, BV.; https://help.corsair.com; ; Wormerweg 8; Almere; Flevoland; Pays-Bas