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The new novel from the author of The Finkler Question, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2010
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Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than mother and daughter, they come as a pair, a blistering presence that destroys Guy's peace of mind, suggesting the wildest stories but making it impossible for him to concentrate long enough to write any of them. Not that anyone reads Guy, anyway. Not that anyone is reading anything. Reading, Guy fears, is finished. His publisher, fearing the same, has committed suicide. His agent, like all agents, is in hiding. Vanessa, in the meantime, is writing a novel of her own. Guy doesn't expect her to finish it, or even start it, but he dreads the consequences if she does. In flight from personal disappointment and universal despair, Guy wonders if it's time to take his love for Poppy to another level. Fiction might be dead, but desire isn't. And out of that desire he imagines squeezing one more great book. By turns angry, elegiac and rude, Zoo Time is a novel about love - love of women, love of literature, love of laughter. It shows our funniest writer at his brilliant best.
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Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than mother and daughter, they come as a pair, a blistering presence that destroys Guy's peace of mind, suggesting the wildest stories but making it impossible for him to concentrate long enough to write any of them. Not that anyone reads Guy, anyway. Not that anyone is reading anything. Reading, Guy fears, is finished. His publisher, fearing the same, has committed suicide. His agent, like all agents, is in hiding. Vanessa, in the meantime, is writing a novel of her own. Guy doesn't expect her to finish it, or even start it, but he dreads the consequences if she does. In flight from personal disappointment and universal despair, Guy wonders if it's time to take his love for Poppy to another level. Fiction might be dead, but desire isn't. And out of that desire he imagines squeezing one more great book. By turns angry, elegiac and rude, Zoo Time is a novel about love - love of women, love of literature, love of laughter. It shows our funniest writer at his brilliant best.
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Zoo Time
Anbieter: Bookbot, Prague, Tschechien
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Softcover. Zustand: Fair. Beschriftungen / Markierungen; Leichte Risse; Farbveränderung durch Alter/Sonne. The new novel from the author of "The Finkler Question," winner of the Man Booker Prize 2010. Artikel-Nr. 5f59fd38-fed7-4250-9cf2-405004d1d238
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Zoo Time
Verlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2013
ISBN 10: 1408837447
ISBN 13: 9781408837443
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Anbieter: Hamelyn, Madrid, M, Spanien
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Zustand: Muy bueno. : En 'Zoo Time', el novelista Guy Ableman se encuentra cautivado por su vivaz esposa Vanessa, una pelirroja de belleza impactante, contradictoria, temperamental y furiosamente enojada. Sin embargo, también está cautivado por la atractiva madre de ella, Poppy. Más parecidas a hermanas que a madre e hija, se presentan como un dúo, una presencia abrasadora que destruye la paz mental de Guy, sugiriendo las historias más salvajes pero imposibilitándole concentrarse lo suficiente para escribir alguna de ellas. De cualquier manera, nadie lee a Guy. Nadie está leyendo nada. Guy teme que la lectura haya terminado. Su editor, temiendo lo mismo, se ha suicidado. Su agente, como todos los agentes, está escondido. Mientras tanto, Vanessa está escribiendo su propia novela. Guy no espera que la termine, ni siquiera que la empiece, pero teme las consecuencias si lo hace. Huyendo de la decepción personal y la desesperación universal, Guy se pregunta si es hora de llevar su amor por Poppy a otro nivel. La ficción podría estar muerta, pero el deseo no lo está. Y de ese deseo imagina exprimir un libro grandioso más. Por momentos enojada, elegíaca y grosera, 'Zoo Time' es una novela sobre el amor: amor por las mujeres, amor por la literatura, amor por la risa. Muestra a nuestro escritor más divertido en su mejor momento. EAN: 9781408837443 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: Zoo Time Autor: Howard Jacobson Editorial: Bloomsbury Paperbacks Idioma: en Páginas: 480 Formato: tapa blanda. Artikel-Nr. Happ-2024-03-12-1d3f0667
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Zoo Time
Verlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2013
ISBN 10: 1408837447
ISBN 13: 9781408837443
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Softcover
Anbieter: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Zustand: As New. Export - OME. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in almost brand-new condition. Artikel-Nr. GRP78547348
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