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Cleaver

Autor Tim Parks
en Limba Engleză Paperback – feb 2007
Overweight and overwrought, Howard Cleaver, London's successful journalist, abruptly abandons home, partner, mistresses and above all television, the instrument that brought him identity and power. Humiliated by his inability to understand the Tyrolese peasants, he discovers that there is nowhere so noisy and so dangerous as the solitary mind.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780099481393
ISBN-10: 0099481391
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 197 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. In 1981 he moved to Italy where he has lived ever since. He is the author of novels, non-fiction and essays, including Europa, Cleaver, A Season with Verona and Teach Us to Sit Still. He has won the Somerset Maugham, Betty Trask and Llewellyn Rhys awards, and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lectures on literary translation in Milan, writes for publications such as the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, and his many translations from the Italian include works by Moravia, Calvino, Calasso, Tabucchi and Machiavelli.

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"Scintillating and subtly nuanced narrative. The secret of its success? Masterful prose, just free-form enough to imitate the whirligig of thought. Parks deserves to take a bow" -- Alastair Sooke New Statesman "Tim Parks is one of Britain's most underrated authors...His latest book, Cleaver, is a dense, intriguing novel, prickly and strange...The novel's portrait of a disintegrating mind is skilful, a fine anatomy of a psyche that flickers between ordinary neuroses and megalomania, and it offers a pungent critique of the middle-class media and their obsessions. Alongside this ruthless acuity, there is as well a certain human warmth" -- Henry Hitchings Financial Times "One can only admire the intelligence and skill with which Parks interleaves the disparate worlds of Chelsea and Sudtirol...I have now read Cleaver three times, and each has let me with greater respect for Park's abilities" -- James Hamilton-Paterson Guardian "Yet again, Parks has anatomised the complexities of the heart with a skill which few of his contemporaries can match" -- David Robson Daily Telegraph "Parks writes tragedy well and reveals Cleaver's piteous state, raw from loss and unable to mourn...[Cleaver] is difficult to like and easy to judge, but he draws you into his world and convinces you to stay" -- Katie Gould Scotland on Sunday