The Devil I Know
Autor Claire Kilroyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 ian 2014
In The Devil I Know, award-winning writer Claire Kilroy delivers a delicious novel, a cautionary tale of financial excess set during the Irish property bubble.
Tristram St. Lawrence has not been home for years—ever since he missed his mother’s deathbed in favor of going on a bender, the thirteenth Earl of Howth is not welcome in the family castle. Now sober, he lives in self-imposed exile, and his main confidant is his sponsor, a mysterious businessman known only as M. Deauville.
One day, when his plane is unexpectedly diverted to Dublin, Tristram ends up where he started, and an old acquaintance, a bully from his school days who’s now making a name in construction, pitches to Tristram an ambitious development project. The trouble is, M. Deauville thinks it’s a good idea, and before Tristram knows it he’s settled in Howth under his father’s baleful gaze and is up to his neck in funding proposals, zoning approvals, and the personal life of his business partner.
A wry and timely skewering of a country, a man, and an entire international financial system descended into madness, The Devil I Know establishes Claire Kilroy as a vigorous and wonderful new talent.
Tristram St. Lawrence has not been home for years—ever since he missed his mother’s deathbed in favor of going on a bender, the thirteenth Earl of Howth is not welcome in the family castle. Now sober, he lives in self-imposed exile, and his main confidant is his sponsor, a mysterious businessman known only as M. Deauville.
One day, when his plane is unexpectedly diverted to Dublin, Tristram ends up where he started, and an old acquaintance, a bully from his school days who’s now making a name in construction, pitches to Tristram an ambitious development project. The trouble is, M. Deauville thinks it’s a good idea, and before Tristram knows it he’s settled in Howth under his father’s baleful gaze and is up to his neck in funding proposals, zoning approvals, and the personal life of his business partner.
A wry and timely skewering of a country, a man, and an entire international financial system descended into madness, The Devil I Know establishes Claire Kilroy as a vigorous and wonderful new talent.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780802122377
ISBN-10: 080212237X
Pagini: 363
Dimensiuni: 140 x 208 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Grove Press, Black Cat
ISBN-10: 080212237X
Pagini: 363
Dimensiuni: 140 x 208 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Grove Press, Black Cat
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Recenzii
Praise for The Devil I Know:
“This young Irish writer packs a stunning worldly wisdom into her beautiful prose.”— Barbara Kingsolver, New York Times bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible and Flight Behavior
“Dark, funny and wonderful: The Devil I Know is a shot through the heart of the Irish boom.”—Anne Enright, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering
“The Devil I Know is smart, funny and stylish, and bang up to the minute. Reading it, one squirms in appalled recognition of the extremes of greed and foolishness of our time, which Claire Kilroy portrays with devilish accuracy.”—John Banville, author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea and Ancient Light
“Cryptic and exuberant and angry and allegorical and satirical all at once . . . Kilroy’s darkly comic, clever novel keeps the reader engrossed and aghast, as chaos is piled on top of crisis, fortunes are made and lost in a trice, and the Irish madness of the times runs its course.”—Patricia Craig, The Independent
“A satiric danse macabre of brio and linguistic virtuosity . . . Taps into the darkness of the finest Irish satire.”—Stevie Davies, The Guardian
“Brave and talented . . . the novel is funny and pointed . . . Kilroy’s mix of the pathetic and grotesque is well done . . . well written and fun.”—Vincent Boland, Financial Times
“A perversely entertaining show of how easily men are corrupted by wealth . . . [Kilroy’s] prose flows irresistibly from page to page. . . . A pleasure to read.”—Nick Brodie, Time Out
“At times genuinely creepy . . . Kilroy takes delight in literary allusions and diabolical puns, but despite the humor there’s real fury in her portrayal of the casual greed, corruption and willful delusion that pervaded society ‘like the pox’, creating a belief in a kind of modern alchemy.”—Amber Pearson, Daily Mail
“A tale of our time: a story of lavish greed and selfishness; soullessness and economic devastation. Even the most jaded reader will find something to be appalled by here. . . . Joyously mad prose. [Kilroy’s] writing hops over the darkness in lively, lyrical, sometimes vitriolic leaps.”—Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times
“A well paced and well told cautionary tale, a page-turner with lots of droll moments as the author skewers the moral mindset that both created the Celtic Tiger and then brought it to its knees.”—John Boland, Irish Independent
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There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile. He made a crooked deal and he blew a crooked pile. He dug a crooked hole and he sank the crooked isle and they all went to hell in a stew of crooked bile. This is a novel of greed and hubris, set against the backdrop of a brewing international debt crisis.
There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile. He made a crooked deal and he blew a crooked pile. He dug a crooked hole and he sank the crooked isle and they all went to hell in a stew of crooked bile. This is a novel of greed and hubris, set against the backdrop of a brewing international debt crisis.