Verlag | Faber & Faber |
Auflage | 2014 |
Seiten | 352 |
Format | 15,3 x 23,3 x 2,4 cm |
Royal Octavo | |
Gewicht | 482 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 057131127X |
EAN | 9780571311279 |
Bestell-Nr | 57131127EA |
Their Lips Talk of Mischief , Alan Warner's first novel with Faber, is a darkly comic tale of hope and humanity against the grim urban and political landscape of Margaret Thatcher's Britain
Klappentext:
High up in the Conrad Flats that loom bleakly over Acton, two future stars of the literary scene - or so they assume - are hard at work, tapping out words of wit and brilliance between ill-paid jobs writing captions for the Cat Calendar 1985 and blurbs for trashy novels with titles like Brothel of the Vampire . Just twenty-one but already well entrenched in a life eked out on dole payments, pints and dollops of porridge and pasta, Llewellyn and Cunningham don't have it too bad: a pub on the corner, a misdirected parental allowance, and the delightful company of Aoife, Llewellyn's model fiancée, mother of his young baby - and the woman of Cunningham's increasingly vivid dreams.
Alan Warner's superb new novel sees the author of Morvern Callar at the top of his game.
Rezension:
[G]litteringly explosive ... the perfect summer read. The Times