Clear: A Transparent Novel
Autor Nicola Barkeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 iun 2005
Nicola Barker fearlessly crams all that and more into this ribald and outrageous peep show of a novel, her most irreverent, caustic, up-to-the-minute work yet, laying bare the heart of our contemporary world, a world of illusion, delusion, celebrity, and hunger.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780060797577
ISBN-10: 0060797576
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Ecco
ISBN-10: 0060797576
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Ecco
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Recenzii
“Barker’s weird imagination works wonders...Exceptional.” — Elle
“The brilliance of Barker’s style is beyond question.” — The Spectator
“The diversity of Barker’s imagination is stunning; her language, witty and exact.” — Daily Telegraph (London)
“An exasperating, beguiling, and occasionally damn-ner perfect piece of work [by an] infuratingly talented British author.” — Kirkus Reviews on Behindlings
“Nicola Barker has a rare writing talent.” — Time Out (London)
“Barker’s earthy, inventive, hilarious, and wickedly satirical novel is enormously entertaining.” — Booklist
“Her vision is unique, funny, dark, sarcastic and clever.” — Alain de Botton
“Barker’s narrative draws us in with the disturbing, surreal touch of a latter-day Lewis Carroll.” — Sunday Times (London)
“Dazzling...She celebrates the complexity of human experience.” — London Times
“The plot doesn’t just twist, it leaps and back-flips and does triple somersaults...” — New York Times Book Review
“The brilliance of Barker’s style is beyond question.” — The Spectator
“The diversity of Barker’s imagination is stunning; her language, witty and exact.” — Daily Telegraph (London)
“An exasperating, beguiling, and occasionally damn-ner perfect piece of work [by an] infuratingly talented British author.” — Kirkus Reviews on Behindlings
“Nicola Barker has a rare writing talent.” — Time Out (London)
“Barker’s earthy, inventive, hilarious, and wickedly satirical novel is enormously entertaining.” — Booklist
“Her vision is unique, funny, dark, sarcastic and clever.” — Alain de Botton
“Barker’s narrative draws us in with the disturbing, surreal touch of a latter-day Lewis Carroll.” — Sunday Times (London)
“Dazzling...She celebrates the complexity of human experience.” — London Times
“The plot doesn’t just twist, it leaps and back-flips and does triple somersaults...” — New York Times Book Review
Notă biografică
Nicola Barker is one of Britain's most original and exciting literary talents. She is the author of two short-story collections: Love Your Enemies [winner of the David Higham Prize and the Macmillan Silver Pen Award] and Heading Inland [winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize]. Her previous novels are Reversed Forecast, Small Holdings, Wide Open Behindlings and Clear, the last of which was long-listed for the 2005 Booker Prize. Her work is translated into twenty languages, and in 2000, she won the IMPAC Award for Wide Open. In 2003, Nicola Barker was named a Granta Best of British Novelist. She lives in London.