Wreaking - Couverture rigide

Scudamore, James

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1846551897 ISBN 13 : 9781846551895

Editeur : Harvill Secker, 2013

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"Scudamore is a richly imaginative fabulist" (Alan Warner Scotsman)

"A quietly remarkable novel that resonates with universality" (Literary Review)

"A creepy chronicle of abuse, abandonment and unrequited love. So much here is brilliant" (Metro)

"A gripping exploration of mental illness. A compelling update of a Gothic novel. The real pleasure of this book is Mr Scudamore's masterly and unflinching prose" (The Economist)

"There can be no doubting the remarkable scope of this writer's imagination, nor the skill of his prose. He has a genius for atmosphere. Wreaking is...overflowing with images and ideas and influences" (Cressida Connolly Spectator)

"Relentlessly inventive" (Sunday Telegraph)

"Settings don't come much more Gothic than Wreaking, the derelict, decaying...psychiatric hospital of James Scudamore's striking third novel" (Daily Mail)

"Wreaking itself is drawn brilliantly with both precise and pungent descriptions. The descriptions of teenage boredom by the sea and adult ennui in the city are stingingly realised. Sharply hewn, inventively structured and unnervingly written" (Stuart Evers Observer)

"Everything we most want to know, the author quietly looks away from, until the story becomes as layered, contorted and interrupted as the collapsing architecture of Wreaking itself. Then time straightens out and speeds up suddenly. Everything connects. Everything comes to light. Everything is revealed, yet somehow the buckling of time induced by subjectivity, madness and metaphor makes it all just as hard to see" (M. John Harrison Guardian)

"A compelling update of a Gothic novel. The real pleasure of this book is Mr Scudamore's masterly and unflinching prose" (Economist)

Quatrième de couverture :

'An immersion in the physical and psychic ruins of a contemporary Britain which enchants and disturbs, lures and repels. The inner poetry and descriptive mastery of James Scudamore's Wreaking are riches that cannot be forgotten. If you only read one novel in coming times, make it this astonishing and deeply moving chronicle.'

Alan Warner

Three solitary characters remember their shared past in a sprawling, derelict psychiatric hospital on the English coast: a turbulent summer in the aftermath of the hospital's closure that culminated in a shocking, life-altering accident. But the more each tries to comprehend the past, the more elusive it becomes. Wreaking is an intricate, labyrinthine novel about the opiate power of place, the fragility of sanity and the fickle nature of memory. It's about how hard it is to live in the present when the past remains a mystery, and ultimately about how we collude with those we love to forget the harm we inflict.

'A gripping exploration of mental illness. A compelling update of a Gothic novel. The real pleasure of this book is Mr Scudamore's masterly and unflinching prose.'

The Economist

'Wreaking itself is drawn brilliantly with both precise and pungent descriptions. The descriptions of teenage boredom by the sea and adult ennui in the city are stingingly realised. Sharply hewn, inventively structured and unnervingly written.'

Stuart Evers, Observer

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harvill Secker
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1846551897
• ISBN 13: 9781846551895
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400