Something of the Night - Couverture souple

Marchant, Ian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1847397794 ISBN 13 : 9781847397799

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2013

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Who can say what the night might bring?
Mummy tucking you up with Teddy and a cup of Ovaltine? Fireworks and frivolity? A party? Music? Dancing? Or you could be reading in bed, between clean linen sheets before falling into deep and restful sleep and sweet dreams. And who knows; the night might bring romance, or love, or sex, if you play your cards right. Or you might be working; millions of people work at night. If nobody worked at night, Britain would cease to function. Or the night might be cold, haunted, inhuman and wild. When you look up into the night sky, you see that you are nothing. An insignificant mote of dust.
Or the night could be all too human. Hen parties in skimpy dresses and fairy wings being slammed into the back of a police van; girls working on street corners in the part of town where the lights don't come on; businessmen going to lap-dancing clubs to forget what waits at home.
Or you could die. Most people do die at night. Or you could just lie awake and wait for the dawn.
Set over the course of an intoxicated night in a house up a mountain in West Cork, Ian Marchant offers a darkly funny account of what people get up to at night, explores his own experience of a life of night times, and shows us how we all have something of the night about us.

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'I don't see how anyone could fail to like it'
Nick Lezard, Evening Standard
A party? Music and dancing? The night is where we have the most fun.
Or you could be tucked up in bed. And who knows? The night might bring romance, or love, or sex, if you play your cards right.
Or you could be at work - in a factory, an office, a hospital.
From hen parties in skimpy dresses, to nightingales in the Cotswolds, to meteors in Shropshire, to dog-racing in Belfast, Ian Marchant sets out on aafter-hours journey around Britain to discover the different ways that we while away that half ofour lives normally spent in darkness.
'The book proves its worth by offering up a shared emotional understanding of what the night can bring' Sunday Herald

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1847397794
• ISBN 13: 9781847397799
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304