The Casual Vacancy
Autor J. K. Rowlingen Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 iul 2013
When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock.
Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.
Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils...Pagford is not what it first seems.
And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity, and unexpected revelations?
A big novel about a small town,The Casual Vacancyis J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults. It is the work of a storyteller like no other.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316228589
ISBN-10: 0316228583
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 140 x 213 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
ISBN-10: 0316228583
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 140 x 213 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
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Notă biografică
J.K.
Rowlingis
the
author
of
the
bestselling
Harry
Potter
series
of
seven
books,
published
between
1997
and
2007,
which
have
sold
over
450
million
copies
worldwide,
are
distributed
in
more
than
200
territories,have
been
translated
into
73
languages,
and
have
been
turned
into
eight
blockbuster
films.
As well as an Order of the British Empire for services to children's literature, J.K. Rowling is the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees, including the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord, France's Légion d'honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award, and she has been a commencement speaker at Harvard University. She supports a wide range of causes and is the founder of Lumos, which works to transform the lives of disadvantaged children.
As well as an Order of the British Empire for services to children's literature, J.K. Rowling is the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees, including the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord, France's Légion d'honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award, and she has been a commencement speaker at Harvard University. She supports a wide range of causes and is the founder of Lumos, which works to transform the lives of disadvantaged children.
Recenzii
Praise
forThe
Casual
Vacancy:
"I had come under the spell of a great novel....A big, ambitious, brilliant, profane, funny, deeply upsetting and magnificently eloquent novel of contemporary England, rich with literary intelligence....This is a deeply moving book by somebody who understands both human beings and novels very, very deeply."—Lev Grossman,Time
"A vivid read with great, memorable characters and a truly emotional payoff....Rowling captures the humanity in everyone."—People
"This book represents a truckload of shrewdness....There were sentences I underlined for the sheer purpose of figuring out how English words could be combined so delightfully....genuinely moving."—Washington Post
"A positively propulsive read."—Wall Street Journal
"Often entertaining....Rowling does a nice job laying out her 20-plus characters' endless pretensions and weaknesses, which she punctures with gleeful flicks of a surprisingly sharp comic blade."—Entertainment Weekly
"The Casual Vacancyis a complete joy to read....a stunning, brilliant, outrageously gripping and entertaining evocation of British society today."—The Mirror(UK)
"A study of provincial life, with a large cast and multiple, interlocking plots, drawing inspiration from Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot...The Casual Vacancyimmerses the reader in a richly peopled, densely imagined world...intelligent, workmanlike, and often funny."—The Guardian(UK)
"I had come under the spell of a great novel....A big, ambitious, brilliant, profane, funny, deeply upsetting and magnificently eloquent novel of contemporary England, rich with literary intelligence....This is a deeply moving book by somebody who understands both human beings and novels very, very deeply."—Lev Grossman,Time
"A vivid read with great, memorable characters and a truly emotional payoff....Rowling captures the humanity in everyone."—People
"This book represents a truckload of shrewdness....There were sentences I underlined for the sheer purpose of figuring out how English words could be combined so delightfully....genuinely moving."—Washington Post
"A positively propulsive read."—Wall Street Journal
"Often entertaining....Rowling does a nice job laying out her 20-plus characters' endless pretensions and weaknesses, which she punctures with gleeful flicks of a surprisingly sharp comic blade."—Entertainment Weekly
"The Casual Vacancyis a complete joy to read....a stunning, brilliant, outrageously gripping and entertaining evocation of British society today."—The Mirror(UK)
"A study of provincial life, with a large cast and multiple, interlocking plots, drawing inspiration from Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot...The Casual Vacancyimmerses the reader in a richly peopled, densely imagined world...intelligent, workmanlike, and often funny."—The Guardian(UK)
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Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war.Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils...Pagford is not what it first seems.And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?A big novel about a small town, The Casual Vacancy is J.K.
Rowling's first novel for adults. It is the work of a storyteller like no other.