The Heart Goes Last
Autor Margaret Atwooden Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 sep 2015
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781408867785
ISBN-10: 1408867788
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1408867788
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Caracteristici
Always
innovative
and
challenging,
Atwood
released
the
first
part
of
this
novel
in
installments
through
the
online
publisher
Byliner.
As
Stephen
King
did
withGreen
Mile,
Atwood
has
already
created
a
massive
fan-base,
who
are
chomping
at
the
bit
to
find
out
just
what
happens
to
Stan
and
Charmaine.
Notă biografică
Margaret
Atwood
is
the
author
of
more
than
forty
books
of
fiction,
poetry
and
critical
essays.
In
addition
to
the
classicThe
Handmaid's
Tale,
her
novels
includeCat's
Eye,Alias
Grace,The
Blind
Assassin(winner
of
the
2000
Booker
Prize),
and
theMaddAddamtrilogy:Oryx
and
Crake,The
Year
of
the
FloodandMaddAddam.
She
is
the
winner
of
many
awards,
which,
in
addition
to
the
Booker,
include
the
Arthur
C.
Clarke
Award,
the
Prince
of
Asturias
Award
for
Literature,
France's
Chevalier
dans
l'Ordre
des
Arts
et
des
Lettres,
Italy's
Premio
Mondello
and,
in
2014,
the
Orion
Book
Award
for
Fiction.
In
2012
she
was
awarded
the
title
of
Companion
of
Literature
by
The
Royal
Society
of
Literature.
Margaret
Atwood
lives
in
Toronto,
Canada.
www.margaretatwood.ca
@MargaretAtwood
Recenzii
Gloriously
madcap
.
You
only
pause
in
your
laughter
when
you
realise
that,
in
its
constituent
parts,
the
world
she
depicts
here
is
all
too
horribly
plausible
Her eye for the most unpredictable caprices of the human heart and her narrative fearlessness have made her one of the world's most celebrated novelists
The bestselling author who shot to fame 30 years ago withThe Handmaid's Taleis still at her darkly comic best
Atwood's gift is to take what's already out there and nudge it to the next level .The Heart Goes Lastis all at once thrilling, funny, grim - and shockingly convincing
It is not a soothing read, although a compelling and darkly comic one - serious and sinister, subtle and shrewd . Atwood's mocking, cool, sceptical voice is as powerful as ever in this novel. When I read her, I hear those drawling, sardonic, amused tones as if she were in on some secret cosmic joke
Awfully good
Atwood has many . points to make about the monetising potential of sexual desire and the depersonalising impact of technology on human relationships, and she does so with tremendous gusto
She is the undisputed queen of dystopian fiction and Margaret Atwood's latest offering is as deliciously disturbing as her dedicated fanbase could hope for ****
Few writers do gleeful droll quite as punchy as Atwood . As savvy as ever
What distinguishes Atwood's apocalypticism is her insistence that we have brought it on ourselves. It's not meteor strikes, or aliens that destroy our world. It's us . I loved it
dazzling and hilarious
You never lose the eerie feeling that each feature of this world could rematerialise in our own. It's what makes her fiction the opposite of the escapism of the geek genres. It's the lack of an escape route that shapes the predicaments of Atwood's characters. That and an imagination without equal
Jubilant comedy of errors, bizarre bedroom farce, SF prison-break thriller, psychedelic sixties crime caper:The Heart Goes Lastscampers in and out of all of these genres, pausing only to quote Milton on the loss of Eden or Shakespeare on weddings. Meanwhile, it performs a hard-eyed autopsy on themes of impersonation and self-impersonation, revealing so many layers of contemporary deception and self-deception that we don't know whether to laugh or cry
Throughout her lengthy career, Margaret Atwood has challenged the way we think about the interactions between humans and technology, and explored the implications that might have on society . Atwood addresses some neat ideas about how much control we really want over our own actions and minds
Atwood has made a bestseller of pretty much everything she'd turned her hand to. AndThe Heart Goes Lastis no exception . Sinister and darkly comic in equal measure, there are glimpses of Atwood's previous worksThe Handmaid's Taleor theMaddAddamtrilogy. But most poignantly, I really rooted for Charmaine and Stan's relationship****
Frolicsome and gleeful . A novel that seems to be about austerity and turns out to be about adultery; a dystopia with a strangely sour-sweet happy ending . Compared toThe Handmaid's TaleorAlias Grace,this is far more hi-jinks in terms of gender and identity, but no less sharp-eyed or incisive ... Sheer fun, with a sharp edge
Darkly funny and tremendously thought-provoking, it is a joy to read . We are in the hands of a consummate storyteller and the narrative threads tighten to a satisfying conclusion . Margaret Atwood is expert at showing us that even if technology increases possibilities, human nature remains the same. The novel asks hard questions about the nature of loyalty and self-preservation even as we laugh
Fast paced and full of fizzy demotic
Clever, witty, speculative dystopian fiction I found pretty disturbing'
Gripping dystopian novel about a couple signing away their freedom for a bit of security
Atwood has long reigned over magical realism fiction -The Handmaid's TaleandThe Blind Assassinare set texts for aspiring feminists. Her new novel deserves equal fanfare
A typically thoughtful exploration of our rapidly changing times and abiding human characteristics
Margaret Atwood, 75, winner of literary gongs the world over and Canada's most revered writer, is having some subversive fun here . A fast-moving caper featuring headless chickens, sexbots and Elvis and Marilyn impersonators . It's funny, clever and, as in all of Atwood's novels, underpinned by moral concerns about personal freedom
As the narrative builds and couples try to regain their freedom, the quest is sometimes thrilling, sometimes comic, often absurd and entirely engaging . What keepsThe Heart Goes Lastfresh, as with the rest of her recent work, is that whilst it revisits earlier themes of her oeuvre, it never replicates. Rather, it reads like an exploration continued, with new surprises, both narratively and thematically, to be discovered .The Heart Goes Lastis a captivating jump into the absurdity of dominance and desire, love and independence - opposing forces that never find resolution
Highly amusing . The question of whether the world is put back together or remains impossibly broken at the end of this sly and alarming novel seems, perhaps, to have been settled by a last snatch ofA Midsummer Night's Dream'
The novel includes its fair share of witty social commentary, with clever side-swipes at the sex trade, trends towards social cleansing and the delusions of the positive thinking movement. The writing too is trademark Atwood: lucid, lyrical and blackly comic
No living writer does dystopia with more panache than the incomparable Margaret Atwood ... This is a screwball comedy disguised as science fiction, more biting romp than cautionary tale ... The satire, almost invisible in the serious early pages, ripens as the story continues, giving Atwood the opportunity to let her unparalleled imagination unfurl
Anyone who reads loves Margaret Atwood'
A comically fearful, laughter-is-the-new-black take on the near future
Another veteran returning to a favourite subject with freshness was Margaret Atwood. Her The Heart Goes Last sees a married couple negotiating with a dystopia which has more than a chilling touch of Stepford
Her eye for the most unpredictable caprices of the human heart and her narrative fearlessness have made her one of the world's most celebrated novelists
The bestselling author who shot to fame 30 years ago withThe Handmaid's Taleis still at her darkly comic best
Atwood's gift is to take what's already out there and nudge it to the next level .The Heart Goes Lastis all at once thrilling, funny, grim - and shockingly convincing
It is not a soothing read, although a compelling and darkly comic one - serious and sinister, subtle and shrewd . Atwood's mocking, cool, sceptical voice is as powerful as ever in this novel. When I read her, I hear those drawling, sardonic, amused tones as if she were in on some secret cosmic joke
Awfully good
Atwood has many . points to make about the monetising potential of sexual desire and the depersonalising impact of technology on human relationships, and she does so with tremendous gusto
She is the undisputed queen of dystopian fiction and Margaret Atwood's latest offering is as deliciously disturbing as her dedicated fanbase could hope for ****
Few writers do gleeful droll quite as punchy as Atwood . As savvy as ever
What distinguishes Atwood's apocalypticism is her insistence that we have brought it on ourselves. It's not meteor strikes, or aliens that destroy our world. It's us . I loved it
dazzling and hilarious
You never lose the eerie feeling that each feature of this world could rematerialise in our own. It's what makes her fiction the opposite of the escapism of the geek genres. It's the lack of an escape route that shapes the predicaments of Atwood's characters. That and an imagination without equal
Jubilant comedy of errors, bizarre bedroom farce, SF prison-break thriller, psychedelic sixties crime caper:The Heart Goes Lastscampers in and out of all of these genres, pausing only to quote Milton on the loss of Eden or Shakespeare on weddings. Meanwhile, it performs a hard-eyed autopsy on themes of impersonation and self-impersonation, revealing so many layers of contemporary deception and self-deception that we don't know whether to laugh or cry
Throughout her lengthy career, Margaret Atwood has challenged the way we think about the interactions between humans and technology, and explored the implications that might have on society . Atwood addresses some neat ideas about how much control we really want over our own actions and minds
Atwood has made a bestseller of pretty much everything she'd turned her hand to. AndThe Heart Goes Lastis no exception . Sinister and darkly comic in equal measure, there are glimpses of Atwood's previous worksThe Handmaid's Taleor theMaddAddamtrilogy. But most poignantly, I really rooted for Charmaine and Stan's relationship****
Frolicsome and gleeful . A novel that seems to be about austerity and turns out to be about adultery; a dystopia with a strangely sour-sweet happy ending . Compared toThe Handmaid's TaleorAlias Grace,this is far more hi-jinks in terms of gender and identity, but no less sharp-eyed or incisive ... Sheer fun, with a sharp edge
Darkly funny and tremendously thought-provoking, it is a joy to read . We are in the hands of a consummate storyteller and the narrative threads tighten to a satisfying conclusion . Margaret Atwood is expert at showing us that even if technology increases possibilities, human nature remains the same. The novel asks hard questions about the nature of loyalty and self-preservation even as we laugh
Fast paced and full of fizzy demotic
Clever, witty, speculative dystopian fiction I found pretty disturbing'
Gripping dystopian novel about a couple signing away their freedom for a bit of security
Atwood has long reigned over magical realism fiction -The Handmaid's TaleandThe Blind Assassinare set texts for aspiring feminists. Her new novel deserves equal fanfare
A typically thoughtful exploration of our rapidly changing times and abiding human characteristics
Margaret Atwood, 75, winner of literary gongs the world over and Canada's most revered writer, is having some subversive fun here . A fast-moving caper featuring headless chickens, sexbots and Elvis and Marilyn impersonators . It's funny, clever and, as in all of Atwood's novels, underpinned by moral concerns about personal freedom
As the narrative builds and couples try to regain their freedom, the quest is sometimes thrilling, sometimes comic, often absurd and entirely engaging . What keepsThe Heart Goes Lastfresh, as with the rest of her recent work, is that whilst it revisits earlier themes of her oeuvre, it never replicates. Rather, it reads like an exploration continued, with new surprises, both narratively and thematically, to be discovered .The Heart Goes Lastis a captivating jump into the absurdity of dominance and desire, love and independence - opposing forces that never find resolution
Highly amusing . The question of whether the world is put back together or remains impossibly broken at the end of this sly and alarming novel seems, perhaps, to have been settled by a last snatch ofA Midsummer Night's Dream'
The novel includes its fair share of witty social commentary, with clever side-swipes at the sex trade, trends towards social cleansing and the delusions of the positive thinking movement. The writing too is trademark Atwood: lucid, lyrical and blackly comic
No living writer does dystopia with more panache than the incomparable Margaret Atwood ... This is a screwball comedy disguised as science fiction, more biting romp than cautionary tale ... The satire, almost invisible in the serious early pages, ripens as the story continues, giving Atwood the opportunity to let her unparalleled imagination unfurl
Anyone who reads loves Margaret Atwood'
A comically fearful, laughter-is-the-new-black take on the near future
Another veteran returning to a favourite subject with freshness was Margaret Atwood. Her The Heart Goes Last sees a married couple negotiating with a dystopia which has more than a chilling touch of Stepford
Descriere
Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of economic and social collapse. Living in their car, surviving on tips from Charmaine's job at a dive bar, they're increasingly vulnerable to roving gangs, and in a rather desperate state. So when they see an advertisement for the Positron Project in the town of Consilience – a 'social experiment' offering stable jobs and a home of their own – they sign up immediately. All they have to do in return for this suburban paradise is give up their freedom every second month, swapping their home for a prison cell.
At first, all is well. But slowly, unknown to the other, Stan and Charmaine develop a passionate obsession with their counterparts, the couple that occupy their home when they are in prison. Soon the pressures of conformity, mistrust, guilt and sexual desire take over, and Positron looks less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled.
A sinister, wickedly funny novel about a near-future in which the lawful are locked up and the lawless roam free, The Heart Goes Last is Margaret Atwood at her heart-stopping best.