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Paul Bailey - Chapman's Odyssey, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

Chapman's Odyssey

Av Paul Bailey

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Beskrivning
Harry Chapman is not well, and he doesn't like hospitals. Furthermore, Dr Pereira's wonder drug is causing some strange side effects: he can hear more than the usual quotient of voices. First, it is his mother, acerbic and disappointed in him as ever, but then more and more voices add their differing notes and stories to the chorus, squabbling, cajoling and commenting. Friends from childhood, lovers, characters from novels and poetry, Virginia Woolf and a man who wants to sell him T.S Eliot's teeth. Written with a gentle, effortless generosity, full of delicate observation, Chapman's Odyssey is the work of a master; a superbly rendered act of storytelling and ventriloquism that is both witty and deeply moving.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2012-02-02
  • Mått: 126 x 196 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 260 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 224
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781408821664
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Paul Bailey is an award-winning writer whose novels include At The Jerusalem, which won a Somerset Maugham Award and an Arts Council Writers' Award; Peter Smart's Confessions and Gabriel's Lament, both shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction; Sugar Cane, a sequel to Gabriel's Lament, Kitty and Virgil and most recently, Uncle Rudolf. He is the recipient of the E. M. Forster Award and the George Orwell Memorial Award, and has also written and presented features for radio. Paul Bailey lives in London.

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If Fred Astaire had been a novelist he'd have been Paul Bailey. This beautiful, moving novel is a piece of dazzling footwork and reveals Bailey once more as one of the wittiest, most panacheful and most graceful writers we have. I love this beautiful book

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1 recensioner, genomsnitt 5/5

  1. 5/5 Anders J

    Paul Bailey är en av Englands bästa författare. Champan's Odyssey är en rörande skildring av en gammal mans tillbakablickar på livet, men också fylld av humor. Inte minst porträttet av sjuksköterskorna är mitt i prick, för att inte tala om besökarna! Sorglig feelgood!

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