French Exit: NOW A MAJOR FILM
Autor Patrick DeWitten Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 iun 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781526601193
ISBN-10: 1526601192
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1526601192
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Caracteristici
Edith Wharton on acid. A contemporary comedy of manners as only Patrick de Witt could write it, French Exit is for fans of original, witty and entertaining fiction. Think Wes Anderson and George Saunders with a dash of F Scott Fitzgerald
Notă biografică
Patrick deWitt is the author of The Sisters Brothers, which won the Governor General's Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Walter Scott Prize. He also is the author of Ablutions, which was a New York Times Editor's Choice, and Undermajordomo Minor. The Sisters Brothers is being adapted for film by Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone, A Prophet), to star Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, Riz Ahmed and John C. Reilly, for release in 2018. Born in British Columbia, Canada, deWitt now resides in Portland, Oregon.
Recenzii
French Exit made me so happy ... Brilliant, addictive, funny and wise
Dazzling . deWitt writes in a gorgeously relaxed, freeform style, dabbing a clause here, a phrase there. The book is studded with tiny pleasures . Sharp and strange . DeWitt's particular comic genius is to evoke the darkness behind the dazzle ... Whichever style he adopts or genre he inhabits, deWitt remains a true original
An accomplished comic novel shot through with DeWitt's trademark genre defiance and caustic sense of humour
Pure joy - think Noël Coward shaken up with Ivy Compton-Burnett and garnished with a twist of Lemony Snicket
DeWitt is in possession of a fresh, lively voice that surprises at every turn
My favourite book of his yet. The dialogue is dizzyingly good, the world so weird and fresh. A triumph from a writer truly in the zone
Gloriously, acerbically funny and odd
A sparkling dark comedy ... DeWitt's tone is breezy, droll, and blithely transgressive ... These are people you may not want to invite to dinner, but they sure make for fun reading
A thrilling madcap caper anchored by memorable characters, emotional depth and forensically sharp writing
The first time I read French Exit, I raced through, impatient to know the fates of its characters. Then I turned back to page one to enjoy Patrick deWitt's understated satire and casually brutal wit
A modern story, a satire about an insouciant widow on a quest for refined self-immolation .... DeWitt's surrealism is cheerful and matter-of-fact, making the novel feel as buoyantly insane as its characters .... DeWitt is a stealth absurdist, with a flair for dressing up rhyme as reason
DeWitt is a promiscuous writer, flirting and subverting a different genre with each new novel. With French Exit he has served up a wry, soufflé-light, European-style comedy . A diverting oddball tale that treads just the right line between bite and whimsy
A Preston Sturges-esque satire on New York's moneyed classes and the casual brutality of their emotional lives, with more than a whiff of The Royal Tenenbaums . Think Cary Grant's uptight paleontologist trading barbs with Katharine Hepburn's blithe heiress in Bringing Up Baby'
A breezily enjoyable social comedy . Frances and Malcolm make for a memorable double act, with Frances in particular zinging out waspish one-liners
Patrick deWitt has taken all of what I usually expect and want from a story, misted it in Chanel No 5, and set to it an immeasurably classy lighter. Love it
Patrick deWitt is an artful ventriloquist: for each of his three novels he has deployed a distinctive and utterly beguiling voice
DeWitt is a true original, conjuring up dark and hilarious images
DeWittland is a place of exaggerated, creeping horror; a place populated by unfeeling characters who engage in bouts of baroque violence; above all a place suffused with grim humour. It's also a place in which the limits of genre are explored
Disarmingly funny ... DeWitt can inject so much exposition with a single sentence that the reader seldom feels the need for elaboration . True to the theatrical form deWitt appears to have been inspired by, French Exit includes multiple layers of meaning and social commentary, wrapped up in a whip-smart package that cracks with wit and wordplay
From the author of the masterpiece of comic taciturnity The Sisters Brothers, French Exit is a "tragedy of manners" delivered with similar devastating wit and brilliance . Combining Edward St Aubyn levels of social awfulness with a masterclass in understated absurdity, any new deWitt novel should be a cause for a national holiday, this one deserving champagne, fireworks and a marching band besides
If you liked Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple, you'll love the quirky characters and sharp humour of French Exit
A highly enjoyable read . deWitt's style is nothing if not idiosyncratic, and his elevated language - played for particular comic effect when it comes to dialogue - is perfectly suited to affectionately chiding upper-class mores . The tenderness between Frances, her son and her old friend Joan is of the real stuff
Frances and Malcolm are terrific characters, immediately arresting . The greatest achievement of French Exit however is the glamorous, formidable Frances; eccentric, highly intelligent, cold-blooded in both personal and business relationships, she's as witty as any Evelyn Waugh mother . A terrible tale of self-ruin more akin to Gatsby or Patrick Melrose than the Wodehouse or Mitford stories it initially conjures . Faintly comparable to Waugh's A Handful of Dust
If you like Paris, cats, dark humour and satire this is the book for you . With a unique cast of characters and an unusual relationships the book is both witty and warm
Dazzling . deWitt writes in a gorgeously relaxed, freeform style, dabbing a clause here, a phrase there. The book is studded with tiny pleasures . Sharp and strange . DeWitt's particular comic genius is to evoke the darkness behind the dazzle ... Whichever style he adopts or genre he inhabits, deWitt remains a true original
An accomplished comic novel shot through with DeWitt's trademark genre defiance and caustic sense of humour
Pure joy - think Noël Coward shaken up with Ivy Compton-Burnett and garnished with a twist of Lemony Snicket
DeWitt is in possession of a fresh, lively voice that surprises at every turn
My favourite book of his yet. The dialogue is dizzyingly good, the world so weird and fresh. A triumph from a writer truly in the zone
Gloriously, acerbically funny and odd
A sparkling dark comedy ... DeWitt's tone is breezy, droll, and blithely transgressive ... These are people you may not want to invite to dinner, but they sure make for fun reading
A thrilling madcap caper anchored by memorable characters, emotional depth and forensically sharp writing
The first time I read French Exit, I raced through, impatient to know the fates of its characters. Then I turned back to page one to enjoy Patrick deWitt's understated satire and casually brutal wit
A modern story, a satire about an insouciant widow on a quest for refined self-immolation .... DeWitt's surrealism is cheerful and matter-of-fact, making the novel feel as buoyantly insane as its characters .... DeWitt is a stealth absurdist, with a flair for dressing up rhyme as reason
DeWitt is a promiscuous writer, flirting and subverting a different genre with each new novel. With French Exit he has served up a wry, soufflé-light, European-style comedy . A diverting oddball tale that treads just the right line between bite and whimsy
A Preston Sturges-esque satire on New York's moneyed classes and the casual brutality of their emotional lives, with more than a whiff of The Royal Tenenbaums . Think Cary Grant's uptight paleontologist trading barbs with Katharine Hepburn's blithe heiress in Bringing Up Baby'
A breezily enjoyable social comedy . Frances and Malcolm make for a memorable double act, with Frances in particular zinging out waspish one-liners
Patrick deWitt has taken all of what I usually expect and want from a story, misted it in Chanel No 5, and set to it an immeasurably classy lighter. Love it
Patrick deWitt is an artful ventriloquist: for each of his three novels he has deployed a distinctive and utterly beguiling voice
DeWitt is a true original, conjuring up dark and hilarious images
DeWittland is a place of exaggerated, creeping horror; a place populated by unfeeling characters who engage in bouts of baroque violence; above all a place suffused with grim humour. It's also a place in which the limits of genre are explored
Disarmingly funny ... DeWitt can inject so much exposition with a single sentence that the reader seldom feels the need for elaboration . True to the theatrical form deWitt appears to have been inspired by, French Exit includes multiple layers of meaning and social commentary, wrapped up in a whip-smart package that cracks with wit and wordplay
From the author of the masterpiece of comic taciturnity The Sisters Brothers, French Exit is a "tragedy of manners" delivered with similar devastating wit and brilliance . Combining Edward St Aubyn levels of social awfulness with a masterclass in understated absurdity, any new deWitt novel should be a cause for a national holiday, this one deserving champagne, fireworks and a marching band besides
If you liked Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple, you'll love the quirky characters and sharp humour of French Exit
A highly enjoyable read . deWitt's style is nothing if not idiosyncratic, and his elevated language - played for particular comic effect when it comes to dialogue - is perfectly suited to affectionately chiding upper-class mores . The tenderness between Frances, her son and her old friend Joan is of the real stuff
Frances and Malcolm are terrific characters, immediately arresting . The greatest achievement of French Exit however is the glamorous, formidable Frances; eccentric, highly intelligent, cold-blooded in both personal and business relationships, she's as witty as any Evelyn Waugh mother . A terrible tale of self-ruin more akin to Gatsby or Patrick Melrose than the Wodehouse or Mitford stories it initially conjures . Faintly comparable to Waugh's A Handful of Dust
If you like Paris, cats, dark humour and satire this is the book for you . With a unique cast of characters and an unusual relationships the book is both witty and warm
Textul de pe ultima copertă
Frances Price—tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature—is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son, Malcolm, is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there’s the Prices’ aging cat, Small Frank, who Frances believes houses the spirit of her late husband, an infamous litigator whose gruesome tabloid death rendered Frances and Malcolm social outcasts.
Putting penury and pariahdom behind them, the family decides to cut their losses and head for the exit. One ocean voyage later, the curious trio land in their beloved Paris, the City of Lights serving as a backdrop not for love or romance, but self-destruction and economic ruin—to riotous effect.
Bestselling author Patrick deWitt has returned with a darkly comic novel—a one-of-a-kind “tragedy of manners,” a brilliant send-up of high society, and a moving mother-son caper.
Putting penury and pariahdom behind them, the family decides to cut their losses and head for the exit. One ocean voyage later, the curious trio land in their beloved Paris, the City of Lights serving as a backdrop not for love or romance, but self-destruction and economic ruin—to riotous effect.
Bestselling author Patrick deWitt has returned with a darkly comic novel—a one-of-a-kind “tragedy of manners,” a brilliant send-up of high society, and a moving mother-son caper.