Engleby - Softcover

Faulks, Sebastian

 
9780091795719: Engleby
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0091795710 ISBN 13: 9780091795719
Verlag: CENTURY, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Mike Engleby says things that others dare not even think. When the novel opens in the 1970s, he is a university student, having survived a 'traditional' school. A man devoid of scruple or self-pity, Engleby provides a disarmingly frank account of English education. Yet beneath the disturbing surface of his observations lies an unfolding mystery of gripping power. One of his contemporaries unaccountably disappears, and as we follow Engleby's career, which brings us up to the present day, the reader has to ask: is "Engleby" capable of telling the whole truth? "Engleby" can be read as a lament for a generation and the country it failed. It is also a poignant account of the frailty of human consciousness. Sebastian Faulks' new novel is a bolt from the blue, unlike anything he has written before: contemporary, demotic, heart-wrenching - and funny, in the deepest shade of black.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sebastian Faulks has written nineteen books, of which A Week in December and The Fatal Englishman were number one in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. He is best known for Birdsong, part of his French trilogy, and Human Traces, the first in an ongoing Austrian trilogy. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a journalist on national papers. He has also written screenplays and has appeared in small roles on stage. He lives in London.

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Mike Engleby says things that others dare not even think.

When the novel opens in the 1970s, he is a university student, having survived a 'traditional' school. A man devoid of scruple or self-pity, Engleby provides a disarmingly frank account of English education.

Yet beneath the disturbing surface of his observations lies an unfolding mystery of gripping power. One of his contemporaries unaccountably disappears, and as we follow Engleby's career, which brings us up to the present day, the reader has to ask: is Engleby capable of telling the whole truth?

Engleby can be read as a lament for a generation and the country it failed. It is also a poignant account of the frailty of human consciousness.

Sebastian Faulks's new novel is a bolt from the blue, unlike anything he has written before: contemporary, demotic, heart-wrenching - and funny, in the deepest shade of black.

'Distinguished by a remarkable intellectual energy... Bravura flourishes of Seventies period detail' Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph

'Engleby... is the most vivid personality Faulks has yet devised' Guardian

'A subtle, perceptive work, and a compelling read' Independent on Sunday

'Evidence of Faulks's remarkable empathy and mastery of the novelist's art' Allan Massie, Scotsman

'Engleby is one of the most creepily compelling characters you'll meet in a long time' Daily Mail

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Verlag
CENTURY
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0091795710
ISBN 13 
9780091795719
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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