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Jonathan Lee - High Dive, E-bok

E-bok, Engelska, 2015

High Dive

Av Jonathan Lee

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‘A meticulous and gripping reimagination of the Brighton bomb’ Observer, Best Novels of 2015In September 1984, a man calling himself Roy Walsh checked into The Grand Hotel in Brighton and planted a bomb in room 629. The device was primed to explode in twenty-four days, six hours and six minutes, when intelligence had confirmed that Margaret Thatcher and her whole cabinet would be staying in the hotel.Moving between the luxurious hospitality of a British tourist town and the troubled city of Belfast, and told from the perspectives of a young IRA explosives expert, the deputy hotel manager and his teenage daughter, High Dive is a taut and tender retelling of one of the most ambitious assassination attempts against the British establishment.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2015-10-22
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Filformat: EPUB
  • Kopieringsskydd: LCP
  • ISBN: 9781473507883
  • Förlag: Cornerstone
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Jonathan Lee's first novel, Who is Mr Satoshi?, was nominated for the Desmond Elliott Prize and shortlisted for an MJA Open Book Award in 2011. His second novel, Joy, published in 2013, was shortlisted for the Encore Award. He lives in New York.

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"High Dive is a fascinating look into a troubled past. In taut scene after taut scene, with a fine style and wit among the carnage, Jonathan Lee does service to history and the novel both." -- Joshua Ferris, author of Then We Came to the End "With wry wit and profound tenderness, Jonathan Lee's High Dive highlights the tensions---between hope and heartbreak, struggle and surrender---at the intersection of the mundane and the momentous. A bold, thrilling triumph of a book." -- Tea Obreht, author of The Tiger's Wife "High Dive is a novel so smart and compassionate and beautifully written that it asks for total immersion. A reader will hold her breath for long, perfectly-paced stretches, and she will surface, dizzied, at the end." -- Lauren Groff, author of The Monsters of Templeton "A completely absorbing novel about the lives of people who struggle in small and massive ways. Lee's writing is poignant, fluid, and very funny. Above all else it feels honest - you can see yourself in all of his characters. I really did love this book, and I'm still thinking and worrying about it." -- Evie Wyld, author of All the Birds Singing "Every assassination is a plot with personal history and national history intertwined, action and inaction offsetting each other, misstep transforming into opportunity, luck submitting to fate. Jonathan Lee is a virtuoso storyteller, combining the skills of a historian, a reporter, a criminal psychologist, and most importantly, a close observer of the complexity of everyday life. What a thrilling new novel." -- Yiyun Li, author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

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