The Rosie Project
Autor Graeme Simsionen Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 iun 2014
The art of love is never a science: Meet Don Tillman, a brilliant yet socially inept professor of genetics, who's decided it's time he found a wife. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which Don approaches all things, he designs the Wife Project to find his perfect partner: a sixteen-page, scientifically valid survey to filter out the drinkers, the smokers, the late arrivers.
Rosie Jarman possesses all these qualities. Don easily disqualifies her as a candidate for The Wife Project (even if she is "quite intelligent for a barmaid"). But Don is intrigued by Rosie's own quest to identify her biological father. When an unlikely relationship develops as they collaborate on The Father Project, Don is forced to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie―and the realization that, despite your best scientific efforts, you don't find love, it finds you.
Arrestingly endearing and entirely unconventional, Graeme Simsion's distinctive debut "navigates the choppy waters of adult relationships, both romantic and platonic, with a fresh take ("USA TODAY"). "Filled with humor and plenty of heart, "The Rosie Project" is a delightful reminder that all of us, no matter how we're wired, just want to fit in" ("Chicago Tribune").
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 060635753X
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 142 x 208 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:Turtleback Scho
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
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Recenzii
Full of quirky humour and touching tenderness. Imagine the love child of Eleanor Oliphant and Bridget Jones and you have this book
Such a joy to read - I honestly can't think of many books that I enjoyed more. It's the definition of a comfort book - an easy and warm read with a lot of heart, and it made me laugh out loud more than any book before
Brisk, funny, and at times outrageous . . . A completely charming story that is as engaging as it is funny
Funny, endearing, and pure, wonderful escapism
A sweet, funny rom-com . . . You'll be willing Don and Rosie on every step of the way
Original, charming and very funny
Touching and laugh-out-loud funny -- thinkThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-timemeetsSilver Linings Playbook
A hilarious, unlikely romance with heartbreaking twists
Don Tillman is one of the most endearing, charming and fascinating literary characters I have met in a long time
Genuinely funny; you'll laugh out loud
I absolutely lovedThe Rosie Project-- original and clever, and perfectly written.The world is going to fall in love with Don and Rosie
A poignant, funny novel about how you don't find love; it finds you
Don Tillman will exasperate, delight and immerse you in a world so original, in a story so compelling, I defy you not to read through the night. Glorious
Beneath the fun and the fluff there is a quietly profound exploration of the assumptions around autism and what it means to have an atypical - or typical - brain
A very funny and touching love story
Adorable . . . Really funny and heart-warming, a gem of a book
If you likeThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Timeyou'll loveThe Rosie Project
Written in a superbly pitch-perfect voice,The Rosie Projecthad me cheering for Don on every page. I'm madly in love with this book! Trust me, you will be, too
The best, most honestly told love story I've read in a long time
Marvellous. Don Tillman is as awkward and confusing a narrator as he is lovable and charming
As well as being delightfully romantic, this is a very funny book and you'll be laughing out loud at Don's misadventures
Funny, charming and heart-warming
Descriere
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is a story about love, life and lobster every Tuesday...
'Marvellous' John Boyne
'Original, clever and perfectly written' Jill Mansell
'Adorable' Marian Keyes
'An upbeat, quirky, impertinent gem of a read' Chris Cleave
'I'm not good at understanding what other people want.'
'Tell me something I don't know . . .'
Love isn't an exact science - but no one told Don Tillman. A thirty-nine-year-old geneticist, Don's never had a second date. So he devises the Wife Project, a scientific test to find the perfect partner. Enter Rosie - 'the world's most incompatible woman' - throwing Don's safe, ordered life into chaos. But what is this unsettling, alien emotion he's feeling?
'Don Tillman is one of the most endearing, charming and fascinating literary characters I have met in a long time' The Times
'Hilarious, unlikely and heartbreaking' Easy Living
'Touching and laugh-out-loud funny - think The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time meets Silver Linings Playbook' Stylist
'Funny, endearing, and pure, wonderful escapism' Independent
'A sweet, funny rom-com . . . You'll be willing Don and Rosie on every step of the way' Marie Claire
'Original, charming and very funny' Woman & Home
'A comic triumph: clever, humane and tears-in-your-eyes funny. But best of all, The Rosie Project is a madly romantic love story' Liz Jensen, author of The Rapture
'I couldn't put this book down. It's one of the most quirky and endearing romances I've ever read. I laughed the whole way through. And now I want to meet Don' Sophie Kinsella
With the charm of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and the romance of David Nicholls' One Day, The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is both funny and endearing - and is set to become the paperback of 2014.
Graeme Simsion is a full-time writer. Previously an IT consultant and educator, he wrote his first book in 1994 (the standard reference on data modelling, now entering its fourth edition), and is married to Anne, a professor of psychiatry who writes erotic fiction. They have two children.