Wide Open

Nicola Barker

ISBN 10: 0571195660 / ISBN 13: 9780571195664

Edité par Faber and Faber, 1999

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Wide Open
• Éditeur: Faber and Faber
• Date de parution: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0571195660
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780571195664
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Used; Very Good

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Synopsis

Fifty miles to the south and east of London, poking out into the estuary of the river Thames, the Isle of Sheppey is a forgotten, misty back water. There's a prison, some wading birds and a small nudist beach. In front of this salty, blasted backdrop, Nicola Barker conjures up an imaginative landscape of breathtaking scope and audacity.

Présentation de l'éditeur

As winner of the highly prestigious IMPAC International Dublin Literary Award, Wide Open beat out books by such masters as Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, and Michael Cunningham. It is truly extraordinary work of fiction, taking readers into a small English seaside town, and into the minds and hearts of its remarkable inhabitants --  a man named Ronny, weed killer by trade, who has some strange things in common with a man he finds dangling from a bridge; Nathan, the son of a pedophile, who toils in the Underground's Lost Property department, endlessly logging missing items; Sara, purveyor of her family boar farm, and Lily, her teenage daughter, tragically born with unformed organs and blood that refuses to clot.  Starkly original and at turns hilarious, sad, and hopeful, Wide Open brilliantly displays Nicola Barker's delightfully singular literary talent.