CLEAR : A Transparent Novel

Barker, Nicola

ISBN 10: 000719241X / ISBN 13: 9780007192410

Edité par 4th Estate, London, 2004

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cloth, dust jacket, 346 pages, fine edition, first printing, d.j is NOT price-clipped, Set during the 44 days in Fall 2003 that the American illusionist David Blaine spent without food suspended over the Thames in a clear plastic box. The narrator is a young man called Adair MacKenny, who works in the London Assembly building and consequently finds his path to and from work impeded by Blaine lovers and haters. Even those who never make the journey down to Tower Bridge appear to be touched in some way. A bizarre novel from a brilliant, young UK novelist. Size: 8 Vo,.(22 cm). N° de réf. du vendeur 1124067

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Titre : CLEAR : A Transparent Novel

Éditeur : 4th Estate, London

Date d'édition : 2004

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : Fine

Etat de la jaquette : Fine

Edition : First Edition

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Revue de presse:

“Barker’s weird imagination works wonders...Exceptional.” (Elle)

“The brilliance of Barker’s style is beyond question.” (Jonathan Mirsky, The Spectator (A Book of the Year))

“The diversity of Barker’s imagination is stunning; her language, witty and exact.” (Daily Telegraph (London))

“An exasperating, beguiling, and occasionally damn-ner perfect piece of work [by an] infuratingly talented British author.” (Kirkus Reviews on Behindlings)

“Nicola Barker has a rare writing talent.” (Time Out (London))

“Barker’s earthy, inventive, hilarious, and wickedly satirical novel is enormously entertaining.” (Booklist)

“Her vision is unique, funny, dark, sarcastic and clever.” (Alain de Botton)

“Barker’s narrative draws us in with the disturbing, surreal touch of a latter-day Lewis Carroll.” (Sunday Times (London))

“Dazzling...She celebrates the complexity of human experience.” (London Times)

“The plot doesn’t just twist, it leaps and back-flips and does triple somersaults...” (New York Times Book Review)