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"Evans' exceptionally engaging "Crooked Heart" brings effervescent wit and oddball whimsy to a venerable formula....The entire novel is a joy from start to finish: briskly paced, taut and snappy with humor and, ultimately, sweet."--Minneapolis Star Tribune
"At the crooked heart of this lovely novel is an odd-couple relationship reminiscent of Moses and Addie in the film Paper Moon, between an odd, clever, and lonely boy and a dodgy, desperate woman. Their reliance on each other is credible, touching and funny."--Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity and About a Boy
"In 'Crooked Heart, ' Lissa Evans's absorbing and atmospheric comic novel, another quietly heroic orphan joins the canon....This is a wonderfully old-fashioned Dickensian novel, with satisfying plot twists....Both darkly funny and deeply touching....It's a crooked journey, straight to the heart."--New York Times Book Review
"The most purely charming read of the summer.... The novel's heart may be crooked, but it is completely in the right place. And if wanting a happy ending for this offbeat pair is wrong, I can't imagine a reader on earth who would want to be right."--Christian Science Monitor
"Crooked Heart explores the Blitz during World War II from two utterly inventive perspectives.... A charming, slanted counterpoint to Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See."--Library Journal, starred review
"In conjuring a vivid portrait of two lost souls -- Vera Sedge, a petty criminal, and Noel Bostock, orphan and boy genius -- who find an unlikely kinship amid the privation of wartime London, Evans has written a sensitive, intelligent novel that revises Sartre's old axiom: Home is other people."--Boris Fishman, author of A Replacement Life
"With not a single combatant and only a few bombs, Lissa Evans has written a wonderful novel about the Second World War. Her two main characters are utterly irresistible, as is their unlikely alliance; I was cheering them on with every page."--Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy
"An absolute dream of a book ... joyful and wonderful - I completely and utterly loved it."--Alexandra Heminsley, BBC Radio 2 Arts Show
"This autumn's feel-good novel teams up two unlikely characters at the outbreak of World War II.... Evans has written an old-fashioned comedy of manners, which is heartwarming, without being mawkish, and extremely funny."--Daily Mail
"I'm pretty sure that Crooked Heart shows the real, practical, opportunistic, Blitz spirit. The chaotic, semi-feral teaming up of Vera and Noel is as sparky and funny charming and touching, but then every now and again comes the vertiginous feeling of peering into something unutterably, dangerously sad."--Louisa Young, author of My Dear I Wanted to Tell You
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"At the crooked heart of this lovely novel is an odd-couple relationship reminiscent of Moses and Addie in the film Paper Moon, between an odd, clever, and lonely boy and a dodgy, desperate woman. Their reliance on each other is credible, touching and funny."--Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity and About a Boy
"In 'Crooked Heart, ' Lissa Evans's absorbing and atmospheric comic novel, another quietly heroic orphan joins the canon....This is a wonderfully old-fashioned Dickensian novel, with satisfying plot twists....Both darkly funny and deeply touching....It's a crooked journey, straight to the heart."--New York Times Book Review
"The most purely charming read of the summer.... The novel's heart may be crooked, but it is completely in the right place. And if wanting a happy ending for this offbeat pair is wrong, I can't imagine a reader on earth who would want to be right."--Christian Science Monitor
"Crooked Heart explores the Blitz during World War II from two utterly inventive perspectives.... A charming, slanted counterpoint to Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See."--Library Journal, starred review
"In conjuring a vivid portrait of two lost souls -- Vera Sedge, a petty criminal, and Noel Bostock, orphan and boy genius -- who find an unlikely kinship amid the privation of wartime London, Evans has written a sensitive, intelligent novel that revises Sartre's old axiom: Home is other people."--Boris Fishman, author of A Replacement Life
"With not a single combatant and only a few bombs, Lissa Evans has written a wonderful novel about the Second World War. Her two main characters are utterly irresistible, as is their unlikely alliance; I was cheering them on with every page."--Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy
"An absolute dream of a book ... joyful and wonderful - I completely and utterly loved it."--Alexandra Heminsley, BBC Radio 2 Arts Show
"This autumn's feel-good novel teams up two unlikely characters at the outbreak of World War II.... Evans has written an old-fashioned comedy of manners, which is heartwarming, without being mawkish, and extremely funny."--Daily Mail
"I'm pretty sure that Crooked Heart shows the real, practical, opportunistic, Blitz spirit. The chaotic, semi-feral teaming up of Vera and Noel is as sparky and funny charming and touching, but then every now and again comes the vertiginous feeling of peering into something unutterably, dangerously sad."--Louisa Young, author of My Dear I Wanted to Tell You
Paper Moon meets the Blitz in this original black comedy, set in World War II England, chronicling an unlikely alliance between a small time con artist and a young orphan evacuee.
When Noel Bostock—aged ten, no family—is evacuated from London to escape the Nazi bombardment, he lands in a suburb northwest of the city with Vera Sedge—a thirty-six-year old widow drowning in debts and dependents. Always desperate for money, she’s unscrupulous about how she gets it.
Noel’s mourning his godmother Mattie, a former suffragette. Wise beyond his years, raised with a disdain for authority and an eclectic attitude toward education, he has little in common with other children and even less with the impulsive Vee, who hurtles from one self-made crisis to the next. The war’s provided unprecedented opportunities for making money, but what Vee needs—and what she’s never had—is a cool head and the ability to make a plan.
On her own, she’s a disaster. With Noel, she’s a team.
Together, they cook up a scheme. Crisscrossing the bombed suburbs of London, Vee starts to make a profit and Noel begins to regain his interest in life. But there are plenty of other people making money out of the war—and some of them are dangerous. Noel may have been moved to safety, but he isn’t actually safe at all. . . .
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- VerlagPerennial
- Erscheinungsdatum2016
- ISBN 10 0062364847
- ISBN 13 9780062364845
- EinbandTapa blanda
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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: New. Über den AutorrnrnLissa Evans has written internationally bestselling books for both adults and children, including Crooked Heart, Old Baggage, and Their Finest Hour and a Half, which was made into the feature . Artikel-Nr. 897361559
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