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Cargando... Between Each Breathpor Adam Thorpe
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Very surprised to see how few people have read this book. Adam Thorpe burst onto the literary scene with Ulverton, a structurally tricky and bravura novel which gained plaudits all over the place. This is very different - a very readable book that could be picked up with advantage by the Richard and Judy book club, but also very beautifully written - we can see Thorpe's other 'day job' as a poet in his lyrical descriptive passages and the way he describes the creative process of the lead character, Jack, a modern classical composer. The book situates creativity as a profession, and Jack between his David Lodge like white working class origins and his Hampstead life as the husband of a stunning eco warrier awash with inherited wealth. Family, loss, deception, children - and their absence - all shape the narrative, as the consequences of Jack's affair with Estonian beauty and bad violinist Kaja reach across six years and bind together the beginning and end of the book. Between each breath centres around the idea of 'home' and of belonging, finding a place and people that are right - 'I very much like what I see stretching out in front of me. It was always there too, I just didn't realise it. It just needed a turn of the head.' - but at the same time shows us how fragile, like a tray of eggs, this can be. A thought provoking book, simple to read, difficult to pigeon hole. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Once 'England's most promising young composer' - now living comfortably in Hampstead with his wife Milly, an heiress - Jack Middleton is in mid-life decline, his career in free-fall. When he visits Estonia for a three-week search for inspiration, he falls for a young waitress called Kaja, deeply bound up in the suffering of her country and the joy and danger of its new freedom. They embark on a passionate affair on a lonely island in a time warp. Then it's over. But of course nothing is ever over. Still childless six years later, Jack and Milly's marriage shows the strain, but they battle on better than most - until the past returns with a vengeance. The crisis takes place over a month, against a precise calendar of background events, both minor and major. Set in London and Estonia between 1999 and 2005 in the aftermath of the London bombings, as a hot, despondent summer drags on unnaturally into the autumn, Between Each Breath is a rich and often hilarious critique of Blair's Britain: decadent, bewildered, shallow, greedy, but knowing all the right buttons to press; knowing the language of compassion and abusing it.A story of love and betrayal, of age and youth, of wealth and poverty, of the new Europe and the old Europe, of art and compromise, of youthful ideals and cynical weariness, Adam Thorpe's extraordinary new novel is a biting, timely satire and a powerfully moving examination of social and emotional disintegration. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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