Feeding Time - Couverture souple

Biles, Adam

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1910296686 ISBN 13 : 9781910296684

Editeur : Galley Beggar Press, 2016

Synopsis

Feeding Time, le premier roman de l'écrivain Adam Biles, basé à Paris, est une histoire sur une rébellion dans la maison d'une personne âgée – ou peut-être, plus pertinemment, sur une rébellion de personnes qui se trouvent juste être âgées. Les personnages de Feeding Time sont aussi drôles, ennuyeux, tranchants, dérangés, aimants et infiniment divers que tout le monde. Ils méritent la dignité, et ils le savent, ce qui rend d'autant plus impératif que quelque chose soit fait pour lutter contre les conditions épouvantables de Green Oaks. Une histoire sur le triomphe de l'esprit humain racontée avec verve et originalité, décrire simplement l'intrigue de Feeding Time est de manquer l'étrangeté, le zeste et la vigueur d'un début profondément impressionnant. C'est un triomphe de l'esprit – et un souffle de rage contre la mort de la lumière.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"Biles concocts a kind of crazed picaresque whereby the unfolding events at Green Oaks merge with passages from Boys' Own adventure stories... The result is intensely refreshing." - The Spectator

"Wonderfully lively, beautifully offbeat... Feeding Time also achieves the rare but fabled mark of the really funny book by making me laugh loudly enough on public transport to draw annoyed looks from the other passengers." - Sunday Express

"Riotous." - The Irish Times, Books of the Year 2016

"A dazzling work on the dismal decay, and humour, of old age." - The Millions

"With Feeding Time, Biles has turned into a force to be reckoned with." - 3AM Magazine

"A rare and imaginative tale filled with verve, wit and daring-do." - Never Imitate

&quotIf Hemingway were around today, he'd be writing paragraphs like these." --Frédéric Beigbeder, Le Figaro, January 2016

"The first full-length work of fiction from Adam Biles: Feeding Time... is a scintillating novel of ideas about an ageing world" - The Observer, Fiction Picks For 2016

"It's a clue to Bile's purpose - not to mention a sign of his megawatt talent - that even in the murkiest depths of the staff's villainy, you're wholeheartedly signed up to their basic humanity. The writing's glorious comic verve is key: Biles knows how to time a gag and has a wonderful knack for bright, fresh wording... Feeding Time is a tricksy yet big-hearted novel that wrestles with an ever-thornier social dilemma without being remotely worthy. It is dedicated to readerly pleasure without short-changing the sadness at its core." --The Guardian

"A revolutionary uprising in an old people's home makes for an interesting concept for a novel. Adam Biles's debut, Feeding Time, adds biting wit and sharp prose to the mix to make a great page-turner of a novel." - Sleepless Editor

"Exceptional... By turns endearing and repulsive, this book will get under your skin." - Book Muse

"Thrilling, thoughtful... This is a novel about aging - and also about resistance." - Necessary Fiction

"The shades of Franz Kafka and Kingsley Amis shuffle through the halls of Biles' infernal old folk's home. Dazzling." - Will Wiles, author of Care of Wooden Floors

"A reading experience that is poignant, smart and giddy." - David Flusfeder, author of John the Pupil

"Feeding Time brims over with inventive energy, stylish prose, and Adam Biles' anarchic imagination." --Rob Doyle, author of Here Are The Old Men

Présentation de l'éditeur

Feeding Time, the debut novel by Paris-based writer Adam Biles, is a story about a rebellion in an old people's home - or perhaps, more pertinently, about a rebellion of people who just happen to be old. The characters in Feeding Time are as funny, annoying, sharp, deranged, loving, and infinitely various as everyone else. They deserve dignity, and they know it - which makes it all the more imperative that something is done about the appalling conditions in Green Oaks. A story about the triumph of the human spirit told with verve and originality, to simply outline the plot of Feeding Time is to miss out on the strangeness, zest, and vigor of a deeply impressive debut. It is a triumph of the spirit - and a blast of rage against the dying of the light.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Galley Beggar Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1910296686
• ISBN 13: 9781910296684
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 410
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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