Paulina & Fran - Couverture souple

Glaser, Rachel B.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1783781580 ISBN 13 : 9781783781584

Editeur : Granta Books, 2016

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'A funny and honest look at what happens to a friendship after two friends leave the rose-tinted world of university and enter the world of adulthood' -- Marie Claire
'Witty, dark and pretty debauched' -- Alison Potter, Reading Chronicle
' The college scenes sparkle with Glaser's crisp portraits of the self-obsessed students' -- Suzy Feay, the Guardian
'Unlike anything I've read before, satirical and moving and weird ... [it] ambushed me and gave me faith' --Ben Marcus, New Yorker Books of the Year

'Glaser's style is one of blithe irreverence, a kind of moreish sardonic drawl perfect for occasional, blind-siding emotional wallops' --Irish Times 'Books of the Year'
'Reading Paulina & Fran is the literary version of hanging with the cool girls' -- Emerald Street
'One for fans of TV show Girls' -- Diva
'Paulina & Fran is the anti-romance satire for the Frances Ha generation' --Kate Loftus-O' Brien, HUCK Magazine
'A book also of the intensity of friendship and emotion in young adulthood, and of the difficulty of changing our lives' --Asylum

'[A] standout' -- Jane Bradley, the Scotsman
'A razor-sharp dissection of a female friendship' -- Fanny Blake, the Daily Mail
'An astute and witty portrayal of [...] coming of age' -- Sarah Gilmartin, Irish Times
'A tale of two art-school heroines and their turbulent youth, full of delicious pettiness' -- Style of Sunday Times

'Part "post-collegiate" novel, part gender-fluid love tragedy... The novel [presents] smart but slippery protagonists, page after page of sharp, memorable similes... a memorable pastiche of the art-school world, and a raft of decent jokes' -- Philip Maughan, New Statesman
'Intense and provocative' -- Sinead Gleeson, RTÉ Radio One Arena
'Full of crackly sharp sentences[and] moments of darkly poignant humour' -- Anna James in Independent on Sunday
'Unruly, undirected desire permeates Glaser's novel... Like F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night, Glaser's book is better understood as a novel of bohemia... They long for a friendship that never quite formed, for a time when anything could happen, and for a place where everyone danced' -- Maggie Doherty, TLS

'The writing in this novel is sassy [...] Indeed this coming-of-age story of intense relationships, oddball wannabe artists and shifting allegiances is full of scenes that stick in the mind, all fuelled by fast-talking characters who mix the naive with the knowing.' -- Michael Prodger, RA magazine

'The writing is fresh and the imagery is brilliantly original' -- Lynn Enright, Pool

'I read this in one sitting... The writing feels fresh, and it's extremely visual and witty... You'll find yourself enticed into their world.' --Image Magazine

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A story of friendship, art, sex, and curly hair: an audaciously witty debut tracing the pas de deux of lust and love between two young, uncertain, conflicted art students. 

At their New England art school, Paulina and Fran both stand apart from the crowd. Paulina is striking and sexually adventurous—a self-proclaimed queen bee with a devastating mean-girl streak. With her gorgeous untamed head of curly hair, Fran is quirky, sweet, and sexually innocent. An aspiring painter whose potential outstrips her confidence, she floats dreamily through criticisms and dance floors alike. On a school trip to Norway, the girls are drawn together, each disarmed by the other’s charisma.

Though their bond is instant and powerful, it’s also wracked by complications. When Fran winds up dating one of Paulina’s ex-boyfriends, an incensed Paulina becomes determined to destroy the couple, creating a rift that will shape their lives well past the halcyon days of art school. 

Crackling with bon mots and knowing snapshots of that moment when the carefree cocoon of adolescence opens into the permanent, unknowable future, Paulina & Fran is both a sparkling dance party of a novel, and the debut novel of a writer with rare insight into the complexities of obsession, friendship, and prickly, ever-elusive love.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Granta Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1783781580
• ISBN 13: 9781783781584
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256