Patience - Couverture souple

Litt, Toby

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1910296996 ISBN 13 : 9781910296998

Editeur : Galley Beggar Press, 2019

Synopsis

Meet Elliott. Elliott is something of a genius. He is hugely intelligent. He's an incredible observer. He is able to memorise and categorise in astonishing detail. He has a beautiful and unusual imagination. More than that, Elliott is an ideal friend. He is overflowing with compassion and warmth and fun. To know him is to adore him. But few people do know Elliott, properly. Because Elliott is also stuck. He lives in a wheelchair in an orphanage.

Its 1979. Elliott is forced to spend his days in an empty corridor, either gazing out of the window at the birds in a tree or staring into a white wall wherever the Catholic Sisters who run the ward have decided to park him. So when Jim, blind and mute but also headstrong, arrives on the ward and begins to defy the Sisters restrictive rules, Elliott finally sees a chance for escape. Individually, the unloved, unvalued orphans will stay just where they are; together, they could achieve a magnificent freedom if only for a few hours. But how can Elliott, unable to move or speak clearly, communicate all this to Jim? How can he even get Jim to know he exists?

Patience is a remarkable story of love and friendship, courage and adventure and finding joy in the most unlikely of settings. Elliott and Jim are going to have some fun.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

TOBY LITT grew up in Ampthill, Bedfordshire. He has worked as a teacher, bookseller and subtitler. A graduate of Malcolm Bradbury s Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia, Toby is best known for writing his books from Adventures in Capitalism to Lilian's Spell Book  in alphabetical order; he is currently working on P . He is a Granta Best of Young British Novelist and a regular on Radio 3 s The Verb. His story John and John won the Manchester Fiction Prize, and his most recent short story collection, Life-like, was shortlisted for the Edgehill Prize and longlisted for the Frank O Connor International Short Story Prize. Toby teaches creative writing at Birkbeck College. 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Galley Beggar Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1910296996
• ISBN 13: 9781910296998
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 260
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible