Spring

David Szalay

ISBN 10: 1555976026 / ISBN 13: 9781555976026

Edité par Graywolf Press, US, 2012

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N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9781555976026

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Spring
• Éditeur: Graywolf Press, US
• Date de parution: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1555976026
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781555976026
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

The US debut from the author of Man Booker Prize Finalist All That Man Is

James is a man with a checkered past--sporadic entrepreneur, one-time film producer, almost a dot-com millionaire--now alone in a flat in Bloomsbury, running a shady horse-racing-tips operation. Katherine is a manager at a luxury hotel, a job she'd intended to leave years ago, and is separated from her husband. The novel unfolds in 2006, at the end of the money-for-nothing years, as a chance meeting leads to an awkward tryst and James tries to make sense of a relationship where "no" means "maybe" and a "yes" can never be taken for granted.

David Szalay builds a novel of immense resonance as he cycles though perspectives that add layers of depth to the hesitations, missteps, and tensions as James tries to win Katherine. James's other pursuit is money, and Spring follows his investments and schemes, from a half share in a thoroughbred to a suit-and-tie day job he's taken to pay the bills. Spring is a sharply tuned novel so nuanced and precise in its psychology that it establishes Szalay as a major talent.

À propos de l?auteur

David Szalay was born in Canada in 1974. His first novel, London and the South-East, won the Betty Trask Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. His second novel, The Innocent, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2009. He lives in London.