The Answers - Couverture souple

Lacey, Catherine

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5�673 �valuations de Goodreads

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ISBN 10 : 178378217X ISBN 13 : 9781783782178

Editeur : Granta Books, 2017

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Revue de presse :

'This summer's Must-Read novel... a darkly funny, tartly feminist look at the tender state of our bodies and souls' -- Vogue

'An ingenious sci-fi scenario that tweaks at the edges of what we believe about that part of us we call a self... Lacey has sly things to say about equality too... Why things should be this way, and whether they can be better, are great questions' -- Guardian

'An exciting and clever follow-up to her acclaimed debut... an unsettling, but whip-smart meditation on love'--Independent

'A clever, gripping read... The Answers is a dystopian take on dating that everyone will be reading this year' -- Stylist

'Strange, intelligent... Lacey explores seismic questions about our relationships to our bodies and our selves in cool, surgically beautiful language... there's no other novel like it out there' -- Metro

'Sharp and funny... beautifully sad' -- Financial Times

'Asks intelligent and disquieting questions about love in the Tinder era'-- Sunday Times

'A sly, surreal take on love and relationships... Lacey has a poet's eye, and pays minute attention to every sentence, every word... Intelligent, articulate and sure of her gifts, Lacey is in possession of that rare skill -- she knows exactly what to leave out' -- Irish Times

'A dystopian romance keyed to the metric-obsessed information age... Relentlessly thought-provoking, this is a sophisticated performance, concerned [...] with the careful unfolding of tightly packed ideas about gender and technology... The Answers is a novel that niggles and gnaws -- and that is a good thing' -- Daily Telegraph

'Lacey's the real thing and in The Answers she takes full command of her powers... This is a novel of intellect and amplitude that deepens as it moves forward... Lacey makes you happy to submit. She casts a spell' -- New York Times

'[A] multi-pronged satire which takes shots at misogyny, the 'gig economy' and our obsession with data' -- Sunday Telegraph

'Catherine Lacey is one of the most intelligent and brittle and funny writers of her generation. In The Answers she builds -- out of the raw stuff of bewilderment and absence -- a soaring, heartbreaking work that's just on the right side of being nearly too beautiful to bear' -- Lauren Groff

'[A]slyly subversive and funny take on the modern dating game' -- Psychologies

'Modern, strange, moving... A sharp premise which will make you shiver about the future' -- --Stellar

'A dystopian dating novel that manages to be both funny and skewering of many things that need to be skewered' -- Red

'Delight at The Answers' suggestiveness, its lovely clean prose and its lack of answers' -- Literary Review

'Not your typical romance, The Answers verges on the dystopian' --Radio Times

Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

Mary is out of options. Estranged from her Evangelist family, plagued by debt collectors and beset by chronic pain, Mary signs up for a mysterious job advertised as 'The Girlfriend Experiment' (or, The GX). Masterminded by a successful Hollywood actor with a string of failed relationships behind him, The GX seeks to pin down and capture the essence of love before it fades, and to answer the question of why two people, drawn together by forces beyond their control, can wake up one day as strangers to one another. Mary is hired to play the part of the Emotional Girlfriend, alongside a Maternal Girlfriend, a Mundane Girlfriend, an Angry Girlfriend and, of course, an Intimacy Team. Each woman has her debts and her difficulties, her past loves and her secrets. As Mary and the actor are drawn ever closer together, the nature of the experiment changes, and the Girlfriends find themselves exposed to new perils, foremost among them, love. From a writer whose debut was hailed as one of the literary events of 2014 comes a novel of die-hard faith and fleeting love; of questions which probe the depths of our society, and answers that will leave you reeling.

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