testament à l'anglaise

Name: testament à l'anglaise
Brand: Coe, Jonathan
SKU: AV-9780241967799
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Le Pitch

Dans "Testament à l'anglaise", Fay Weldon dresse le portrait caustique de la famille Winshaw, puissante et corrompue, à travers les yeux de Michael Owen. Ce dernier, jeune écrivain agoraphobe, se voit confier la tâche de retracer l'histoire de cette dynastie aux multiples facettes. Manipulations, trahisons, crimes maquillés, rien n'échappe à la plume acérée de Weldon qui mêle le roman policier à la satire politique avec brio. Le secret de famille finira par éclater lors d'une nuit fatidique, plongeant les Winshaw dans le scandale. Un récit captivant et audacieux, qui interroge les notions de pouvoir, morale et héritage. Afficher moinsAfficher plus

Contenu

4ème de couverture

A brilliant noir farce, a dystopian vision and the story of an obsession. Michael is a lonely, rather pathetic writer, obsessed by the film, 'What A Carve Up!' in which a mad knifeman cuts his way through the inhabitants of a decrepit stately pile as the thunder rages. Inexplicably, Michael is commissioned to write the family history of the Winshaws, an upper class Yorkshire clan whose members have a finger in every establishment pie. But as a murderous maniac stalks the family, Michael realizes that his favourite film is coming true.Biographie de l'auteurJonathan Coe has written ten novels: The Accidental Woman, A Touch of Love, The Dwarves of Death, What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep,The Rotters' Club, The Closed Circle, The Rain Before It Falls, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim and Expo 58. His biography of the novelist B.S. Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, won the 2005 Samuel Johnson Prize for best non-fiction book of the year.

Coe, Jonathan

testament à l'anglaise

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Le Pitch

Dans "Testament à l'anglaise", Fay Weldon dresse le portrait caustique de la famille Winshaw, puissante et corrompue, à travers les yeux de Michael Owen. Ce dernier, jeune écrivain agoraphobe, se voit confier la tâche de retracer l'histoire de cette dynastie aux multiples facettes. Manipulations, trahisons, crimes maquillés, rien n'échappe à la plume acérée de Weldon qui mêle le roman policier à la satire politique avec brio. Le secret de famille finira par éclater lors d'une nuit fatidique, plongeant les Winshaw dans le scandale. Un récit captivant et audacieux, qui interroge les notions de pouvoir, morale et héritage. Afficher moinsAfficher plus

Détails du livre

Titre complet

What a Carve Up!: A wickedly funny take on life under the Thatcher government by the award-winning author of Middle England

Auteur

Editeur

Format

Broché

Publication

11 juin 2014

Pages

512

Taille

19.8 x 12.9 x 3 cm

Poids

351

ISBN-13

9780241967799

Contenu

4ème de couverture

A brilliant noir farce, a dystopian vision and the story of an obsession. Michael is a lonely, rather pathetic writer, obsessed by the film, 'What A Carve Up!' in which a mad knifeman cuts his way through the inhabitants of a decrepit stately pile as the thunder rages. Inexplicably, Michael is commissioned to write the family history of the Winshaws, an upper class Yorkshire clan whose members have a finger in every establishment pie. But as a murderous maniac stalks the family, Michael realizes that his favourite film is coming true.Biographie de l'auteurJonathan Coe has written ten novels: The Accidental Woman, A Touch of Love, The Dwarves of Death, What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep,The Rotters' Club, The Closed Circle, The Rain Before It Falls, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim and Expo 58. His biography of the novelist B.S. Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, won the 2005 Samuel Johnson Prize for best non-fiction book of the year.