AQUARIUM - Couverture souple

David Vann

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 2351786459 ISBN 13 : 9782351786451

Editeur : GALLMEISTER EDITIONS, 2018

Synopsis

Caitlin, douze ans, vit avec sa mère dans un modeste appartement d'une banlieue de Seattle. Afin d'échapper à la solitude et à la grisaille de sa vie quotidienne, chaque jour, après l'école, elle court à l'aquarium pour se plonger dans les profondeurs du monde marin, qui la fascine. Là, elle rencontre un vieil homme qui semble partager sa passion pour les poissons et devient peu à peu son confident. Mais la vie de Caitlin bascule le jour où sa mère découvre cette amitié et lui révèle le terrible secret qui les lie toutes les deux à cet homme.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

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'One of America's most powerful writers' Times Literary Supplement

Twelve-year-old Caitlin lives alone with her mother -a docker at the local container port - in subsidised housing next to an airport in Seattle. Each day, while she waits to be picked up after school, Caitlin visits the local aquarium to study the fish. Gazing at the creatures within the watery depths, Caitlin is transported to a shimmering universe beyond her own.
When she befriends an old man at the tanks one day, who seems as enamoured of the fish as she, Caitlin cracks open a dark family secret and propels her once-blissful relationship with her mother toward a precipice of terrifying consequence.

‘A powerful tale of guilt and resentment, steeped in the atmosphere of a bleak winter city.’ Mail on Sunday

‘You’ll keep wanting to know what happens next ... as addictive as a first-class detective novel.’ Spectator

Revue de presse

"A triumph" (Daily Mail)

"His prose is as clear, fresh and invigorating as a starry winter night on an Aleutian mountainside, and his intriguing scenarios make his books easy to devour in a few urgent sittings" (The Times)

"A stirring tale that isn’t as simple as it first appears." (Esquire)

"A blue-collar parable ... [The character] looks back on her life as a child looks into a tank, hoping to make sense of the world inside – a theme that Vann develops beautifully, creating a mysterious realm of the wintry American city’" (Guardian)

"Vann spins a powerful tale of guilt and resentment, steeped in the atmosphere of a bleak winter city" (Mail on Sunday)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: GALLMEISTER EDITIONS
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 2351786459
• ISBN 13: 9782351786451
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 240