THE FOWLER FAMILY BUSINESS - Couverture souple

Meades, Jonathan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1857029046 ISBN 13 : 9781857029048

Editeur : Fourth Estate, 2003

Synopsis

‘One of the funniest and truest writers we have. No one understands England better than Meades.’ Stephen Fry

An inventively nasty, gruesomely comic paean to the sylvan heights of Forest Hill and Upper Norwood, a warped map of the death trade’s quotidian strangeness.

Henry Fowler was twice, long ago, runner-up in the Oil Fuels Guild-sponsored Young Funeral Director of the Year competition. His intense loyalties are to his parents, to his wife and children, to the family firm and the trade it practises, to his native south-east London and to his best friend Curly, traffic wonk and surviving brother of his former best friend who fell to his death at Norwood Junction. Well into middle age, and Henry’s life is running smoothly as he always hoped it would. But then: his wife’s tennis partner, a celebrity florist and BBC2 star is accidentally beheaded by his electric hedgecutter while crimping a three metre high topiary poodle; Curly, newly married and eager for a child is diagnosed as suffering ‘waterworks problems’; and Henry, suddenly doubtful of his wife’s fidelity, cuts a lock of his sleeping daughter’s hair. The foundations of a world, a family and an identity begin to rock.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Johnathan Meades is a British novellist and writer on food, architecture, and culture, as well as an innovative broadcaster. Perhaps best known for his television appearences on ‘Abroad with Jonathan Meades’ and its sequel series, Meades is also a succesful novellist. His previous books include The Illustrated Atlas of the World's Great Buildings (1980), Filthy English (1984), Architectural Expressions (2001), Incest and Morris Dancing (2002) and The Fowler Family Business (2002).

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

"One of the funniest and truest writers we have. No one understands England better than Meades."
STEPHEN FRY

Henry Fowler was twice, long ago, runner-up in the Oil Fuels Guild-sponsored Young Funeral Director of the Year competition. His intense loyalties are to his parents, to his wife and children, to the family firm and the trade it practises, to his native south-east London and to his best friend Curly. But when Henry cuts a lock of his sleeping daughter's hair, the foundations of a world, a family and an identity begin to rock.

"Jonathan Meades has been compared, favourably, to Rabelais and, flatteringly, to Swift. The truth is that he outstrips both in the gaudiness of his imagination…Few works of fiction will surpass its toxicity."
'TLS'

"Jonathan Coe meets Edgar Allen Poe"
'Esquire'

"A brilliant novel…Meades is a genius at provoking horrid laughter."
'Evening Standard'

"By the end I was appalled by the extent of my own admiration for this nastily comic tale. This comedy is not so much black as draped in sackcloth and ashes."
BEL MOONEY, 'The Times'

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fourth Estate
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1857029046
• ISBN 13: 9781857029048
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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