Overland - Couverture souple

Rawle, Graham

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1784741485 ISBN 13 : 9781784741488

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 2018

Synopsis

Welcome to Overland! Where the California sun shines down on synthetic grass and plastic oranges bedeck the trees all year round. Steam billows gently from the chimney tops and the blue tarpaulin lake is open for fishing…

Hollywood set-designer George Godfrey has been called on to do his patriotic duty and he doesn’t believe in half-measures. If he is going to hide an American aircraft plant from the threat of Japanese aerial spies he has an almighty job on his hands. He will need an army of props and actors to make the Lockheed factory vanish behind the semblance of a suburban town. Every day, his “Residents” climb through a trapdoor in the factory roof to shift model cars, shop for imaginary groceries and rotate fake sheep in felt-green meadows.

Overland is a beacon for the young women labouring below it: Queenie, dreaming of movie stardom while welding sheet metal; Kay, who must seek refuge from the order to intern “All Persons of Japanese Ancestry”. Meanwhile, George’s right-hand Resident, Jimmy, knows that High Command aren’t at all happy with the camouflage project...

With George so bewitched by his own illusion, might it risk confusing everybody – not just the enemy?

Overland is a book like no other -- to be read in landscape format. Based on true events, it is a novel where characters' dreams and desires come down to earth with more than a bump, confronting the hardships of life during wartime. As surreal and playful as it is affecting and unsettling, no-one other than Graham Rawle could have created it.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Graham Rawle is a writer, artist and designer. His popular series 'Lost Consonants' ran in the Weekend Guardian for 15 years. His collaged novel, Woman's World, created entirely from fragments of found text clipped from vintage women's magazines was described by The Times as “a work of genius”. His interpretation ofThe Wizard of Oz was named 2009 Book of the Year at the British Book Design Awards, and his novel The Card, was shortlisted for the 2013 Writers’ Guild Best Book Award. Rawle lives in London and teaches at the University of Brighton. He is Visiting Professor of Illustration at Falmouth University and Norwich University of the Arts where in 2012 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for services to design.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1784741485
• ISBN 13: 9781784741488
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible