It's All Right Now

Zusatztext "This novel is huge-in size! ambition! intelligence! and heart." Informationen zum Autor Charles Chadwick has lived and worked in England, Canada, Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia, Brazil, and Poland. He lives in London. This is his first novel. Klappentext Meet Tom Ripple, a man with an uncommon outlook on his common life. Through the vividness of his voice and his growing sense of the sorrow and absurdity of the world, Tom Ripple becomes an unusually appealing antihero, aware of his ordinariness and the limits of his intelligence, with a ribald sense of humor, and a clumsiness in his attempts at emotional connection with others. He is a bewildered everyman navigating his way through modern times. By turns poignant, funny, heartbreaking, and profound, It's All Right Now is a towering achievement and a singular work of the imagination. Zusammenfassung Meet Tom Ripple! a man with an uncommon outlook on his common life. Through the vividness of his voice and his growing sense of the sorrow and absurdity of the world! Tom Ripple becomes an unusually appealing antihero! aware of his ordinariness and the limits of his intelligence! with a ribald sense of humor! and a clumsiness in his attempts at emotional connection with others. He is a bewildered everyman navigating his way through modern times. By turns poignant! funny! heartbreaking! and profound! It's All Right Now is a towering achievement and a singular work of the imagination.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Chadwick
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.06.2006
• EAN: 9780060742874
• ISBN: 978-0-06-074287-4
• No. of pages: 704
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 205 mm x 29 mm
• Series: P.S.
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Women, FICTION: General, FICTION: Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, FICTION: Humorous / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: Satire, FICTION: Humorous / Black Humor, FICTION: World Literature / England / 20th Century, FICTION: World Literature / England / 21st Century, FICTION: World Literature / American / 20th Century