Life on Other Planets - Couverture souple

Cook, Matt

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1912436965 ISBN 13 : 9781912436965

Editeur : Lendal Press, 2021

Synopsis

When I was fourteen, my family had a nervous breakdown…

It is 1997. To himself, Benjamin Carter is a thing drifted somehow out of its orbit. With the news that Great Aunt Pearl is dead, his summer is looking like yet another non-starter. There’s his summons to the clearance of her ramshackle house. His dad’s awkward pep talks. A toxic cocktail of over-zealous aunts and uncles. And then there’s the Church of the Holy Heavens―the space cult that’s been wooing Pearl for all she’s worth.

It was supposed to be simple: grieve, junk, funeral, home. But from the sidelines, Ben can see the cracks starting to show. When the search for a will goes off-beam, the Carters find themselves under siege by the property they all crave. Alone in the house together, the Carters’ lives lock into something unrecognisable and their pursuit of Aunt Pearl’s not-quite-worldly goods entirely consumes them. As Ben comes face-to-face with death, a new person emerges: curious, uninhibited, free-falling. In Life on Other Planets, Matt Cook has created a startling portrait of a young man caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it. Comedies of English manners have rarely been darker.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Matthew Cook was born in 1979 in Chelmsford, Essex. He studied Psychology at the University of Manchester before becoming a freelance writer. His short and non-fiction has been shortlisted for Writing on the Wall’s Pulp Idol and the Cambridge Short Story Prize, and he has featured in The Stockholm Review, Oblong Magazine, Number Eleven, Spelk, The Pygmy Giant, Boneshaker, Tusk, Small Doggies and Imbroglio. Life on Other Planets is his first novel. He lives in Liverpool with his family.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lendal Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1912436965
• ISBN 13: 9781912436965
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible