Sanderson’s Isle: 'A raucous, Technicolor scream' Sunday Times
Autor James Clarkeen Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 iul 2023
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781788163538
ISBN-10: 1788163532
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 142 x 218 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Serpent's Tail
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1788163532
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 142 x 218 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Serpent's Tail
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
James Clarke was born in Manchester in 1985 and grew up in the Rossendale Valley, Lancashire. His debut novel The Litten Path won the 2019 Betty Trask Prize.
Recenzii
Gorgeous, luxurious language propels a motley crew of characters as they beg, borrow, beat and maneuver their ways up and down the country, through TV shows, derelict stations, weird communes, lockhouses and forests. Extraordinarily mapped and cinematic in its sense of place, character and time through a powerful narrative voice, this is a portrait of riotous, joyful, mystical, horrible and high little Englanders that I loved.
Off-kilter, eerie, defiantly awkward: there's little else like it right now
Freewheeling, vivid, and intensely imagined, Sanderson's Isle creates a portrait of a nation - but what a portrait is offered up here by James Clarke, and what a nation... although set 50 years and more ago, Sanderson's Isle has a decidedly contemporary flavour: it is a letter of love to another England, one that has long been marginalised, brutalised and effectively silenced
Much literary fiction of recent years has erred towards minimalism: little action, few characters, story replaced by mood, dialogue replaced by thought. Manchester-born James Clarke's third novel, Sanderson's Isle, is a raucous, Technicolor scream against this trend ... If it feels gratuitous, that's only because of the lethargic narratives we've become used to
Clarke is particularly good at the landscapes that are one of the main pleasures of the narrative, from scraggy east London to the vividness of the Lake District
Set at the end of the 1960s, with the schism between straight society and the substratum of psychedelic dropouts making for some uneasy culture clashing, Clarke's pacing is shrewd and cinematic, his characters vivid and beguiling ... depicts the crumbling end of a hazy decade vividly
Psychedelic 1960s London, TV personalities, counterculture in the Lake District, a lost child! Wasn't I always going to love this book? And what a magnificent experience it is in its rendering of isolation and belonging, its precise evocation of place and time
'A feisty, subversive countervision of England's lost futures and buried longings'
What a narrator. How Speake speaks. How he bends your ear, and your heart. Sanderson's Isle sometimes reads like a lost John Braine or David Storey novel. There's even a touch of Ted Lewis in its elemental fatalism. It's that good
Sanderson's Isle is a hugely enjoyable sex and drug fuelled human drama, set against the gritty backdrops of 1960's London and the Lake District. Clarke's vivid writing brings his characters fully to life, each one grappling in their own way with the social turbulence at the dawn of the space age. A powerful and deeply engaging read
[An] engaging, inventive literary noir ... full of neat twists and potent writing
Praise for James Clarke
His prose is generous and electrifying, unjudgemental and assured. A brilliant new talent
A magic portrayal of life in the peripheries
Clarke writes with relish ... a ferocious portrait of a time and place
Off-kilter, eerie, defiantly awkward: there's little else like it right now
Freewheeling, vivid, and intensely imagined, Sanderson's Isle creates a portrait of a nation - but what a portrait is offered up here by James Clarke, and what a nation... although set 50 years and more ago, Sanderson's Isle has a decidedly contemporary flavour: it is a letter of love to another England, one that has long been marginalised, brutalised and effectively silenced
Much literary fiction of recent years has erred towards minimalism: little action, few characters, story replaced by mood, dialogue replaced by thought. Manchester-born James Clarke's third novel, Sanderson's Isle, is a raucous, Technicolor scream against this trend ... If it feels gratuitous, that's only because of the lethargic narratives we've become used to
Clarke is particularly good at the landscapes that are one of the main pleasures of the narrative, from scraggy east London to the vividness of the Lake District
Set at the end of the 1960s, with the schism between straight society and the substratum of psychedelic dropouts making for some uneasy culture clashing, Clarke's pacing is shrewd and cinematic, his characters vivid and beguiling ... depicts the crumbling end of a hazy decade vividly
Psychedelic 1960s London, TV personalities, counterculture in the Lake District, a lost child! Wasn't I always going to love this book? And what a magnificent experience it is in its rendering of isolation and belonging, its precise evocation of place and time
'A feisty, subversive countervision of England's lost futures and buried longings'
What a narrator. How Speake speaks. How he bends your ear, and your heart. Sanderson's Isle sometimes reads like a lost John Braine or David Storey novel. There's even a touch of Ted Lewis in its elemental fatalism. It's that good
Sanderson's Isle is a hugely enjoyable sex and drug fuelled human drama, set against the gritty backdrops of 1960's London and the Lake District. Clarke's vivid writing brings his characters fully to life, each one grappling in their own way with the social turbulence at the dawn of the space age. A powerful and deeply engaging read
[An] engaging, inventive literary noir ... full of neat twists and potent writing
Praise for James Clarke
His prose is generous and electrifying, unjudgemental and assured. A brilliant new talent
A magic portrayal of life in the peripheries
Clarke writes with relish ... a ferocious portrait of a time and place