The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception - Couverture souple

Carrère, Emmanuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1784705802 ISBN 13 : 9781784705800

Editeur : Vintage, 2017

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"This is the sort of story I dreamed of covering when I was a journalist. The sort of story for which the phrase You couldn’t make it up was invented. The Adversary takes a deep, mesmerising dive into the darkness of a human soul. There were moments when I truly could not believe what I was reading. But unlike other serial killer noirs sitting on my shelves, this horror is real. And so much more chilling for that." (Fiona Barton, author of The Widow)

"The story told here is truly beyond the imagination for even the best crime writer" (Sunday Times)

"The mesmerizing true crime tale of an apparently ordinary man whose life mutates in the space of a few blood-splattering hours from the realm of Renoir to that of Stephen King" (People)

"He’s the best kind of writer, not just a bestseller but a man who is not afraid to leave the comfort zone of his desk, go out into the world, take risks, and get his shoes dirty" (Observer)

"A triumph of insight and concision, brilliant both as a psychological study and as the portrayal of a community" (Blake Morrison Independent on Sunday)

"A masterpiece... It's a level of moral discomfort almost without equal in literature" (New York Times)

"Savagely intense and utterly compelling... This is his paciest and cleanest-cut book...few books could better deserve a second chance to find new readers" (Sunday Times)

"The Adversary is exactly the idea I have of a modern novel: struggling deftly with facts and with itself" (Laurent Binet, author of HHhH)

"An absolutely stunning piece of work, totally involving and unforgettable" (Evening Standard)

"Unputdownable... Imagine a sleek, twenty-first century version of In Cold Blood" (Washington Post)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in The Times
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

ON THE SATURDAY MORNING OF JANUARY 9, 1993, WHILE JEAN CLAUDE ROMAND WAS KILLING HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN, I WAS WITH MINE IN A PARENT-TEACHER MEETING...

With these chilling first words, acclaimed master of psychological suspense, Emmanuel Carrère, begins his exploration of the double life of a respectable doctor, eighteen years of lies, five murders, and the extremes to which ordinary people can go.

'As a writer, Carrère is straight berserk; as a storyteller he is so freakishly talented, so unassuming in grace and power that you only realize the hold he's got on you when you attempt to pull away... You say: True crime and literature? I don't believe it. I say: Believe it' Junot Díaz

'Mesmerising' Sunday Telegraph
'Stunning' Evening Standard
'Unputdownable' Washington Post
'A masterpiece' New York Times

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1784705802
• ISBN 13: 9781784705800
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208