Luck - Couverture souple

Hofmann, Gert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1860468616 ISBN 13 : 9781860468612

Editeur : The Harvill Press, 2002

Synopsis

A child's-eye view of a family in decline, Luck combines humour and suspense with a heartbreaking pathos. This is the story of a nuclear family: father, mother, daughter and son. But all is not as it seems, for Mother is in love with Herr Herkenrath, and now father and son will have to leave home. Or will they? The mother sits in her room, squirting herself with perfume, waiting for her new man to arrive and her old one to go. Everyone makes their own luck in this life! she tells her children. The father sits in his room, planning another novel. Why doesn't his writing sell? Is it just bad luck? The little sister is the lucky one: she gets to stay at home. But maybe it's the son who is the lucky one: he gets to go. But will anybody really leave? Only time will tell, but time is running out. The removal van is on its way.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Although Gert Hofmann (1931-93) was a prolific author of radio plays, he did not become a full-time writer until 1979. His other books in English translation are Spectacle at the Tower, Our Conquest, The Parable of the Blind, Balzac's Horse and Other Stories, Before the Rainy Season, and The Film Explainer which won the Independent Foreign Fiction Award in 1995.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Harvill Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1860468616
• ISBN 13: 9781860468612
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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