Gull

Patterson, Glenn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1784971847 ISBN 13 : 9781784971847

Editeur : Head of Zeus, 2016

Revue de presse :

'Glenn Patterson has written a decorous book about a big, indecorous American failure ... Patterson is alert to every nuance. He is by now a tremendously proficient novelist ... A rich, fictional achievement' Literary Review.

'No other novelist has proved as capable of capturing the heart of modern Belfast' Sunday Tribune.

'A delightful novel ... A fluent narrative that unfolds with wit, charm and stranger-than-fiction twists' Daily Mail.

'Colourful ... If anyone can tell the curious DeLorean story in Northern Ireland, it's Patterson' Observer.

'A tragi-comic story of terrorism and fraud' The Scotsman.

'A great read with tangible TV potential' --Irish News Book of the Week

'Gull confirms Patterson's status as one of Norther Ireland's finest fictional chroniclers' Sunday Times. --Sunday Times

'This is a complex story put together with intuitive ease and panache... He is compelling' Irish Times. --Irish Times

Présentation de l'éditeur :

It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports car with gull-wing doors. Huge subsidies were provided by the British government. The first car rolled off the line during the appalling hunger strikes of 1981.

The prime mover and central character of this intelligent, witty and moving novel was John DeLorean, brilliant engineer, charismatic entrepreneur and world-class conman. He comes to energetic, seductive life through the eyes of his fixer in Belfast, a traumatised Vietnam veteran, and of a woman who takes a job in the factory against the wishes of her husband. Each of them has secrets and desires they dare not share with anyone they know.

A great American hustler brought to vivid life in the most unlikely setting imaginable.