Snowstorms In A Hot Climate

Zusatztext “Polished! intelligent! and inventive . . . high-grade stuff! laced only with wit! a touch of feminism! and myriad! entertaining ambiguities.” – Kirkus Reviews “An intricate psychological chess game . . . Sharp-edged humor! a devious! neo-Gothic plot that twists back on itself! and a lust for revenge impel the novel to its inexorable finale.” – Publishers Weekly “Ekes out the tension . . . increasingly thrilling as the pages fly by.” – The Times (London) Informationen zum Autor Sarah Dunant is the author of the international bestsellers The Birth of Venus! In the Company of the Courtesan! Sacred Hearts! and Blood and Beauty! which have received major acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. Her earlier novels include three Hannah Wolfe crime thrillers! as well as Snowstorms in a Hot Climate! Transgressions! and Mapping the Edge . She has two daughters and lives in London and Florence. Klappentext This smart and suspenseful first novel--"as good as Patricia Highsmith at her best" (Paul Theroux)--by the bestselling author of "The Birth of Venus" is being published for the first time in the United States. "Truly breathtaking."--"The New York Times." One London 1985 I was happy that day because I was leaving and I like departures. I understand why some people find them untidy, emotional affairs, but I have always had a hankering after them. That is one thing Elly and I have in common. I find airports the best places to leave from. Of course they have none of the romance of railway stations—no clinging good-byes framed in billowing steam, no last-minute touches through half-opened windows, no nineteenth-century echoes to gild the going. No, airports are altogether more anesthetized points of dispatch, conceived and constructed for efficiency, not grace. But then that is what gives them their power, what makes them so exhilarating. Because from the moment those automatic doors glide apart to welcome you inside, nothing, as far as I can see, need ever be the same again. However bad you are feeling, however caught in the quicksand of failed chances and repeating patterns, airports are the new horizon, the conveyor belt of travel, which in due course will disgorge you in some exotic location where you will be happy, fulfilled, or at the very least, different. Such were my fantasies in the departure lounge of Heathrow Airport on that last Thursday in July. The preliminaries were over. I had arrived out of the heartland of the city alone, struggling with my own cases, anonymous. I had had my ticket torn, my baggage checked, and my name punched into the computer. I had taken the habitual last walk around the outer compound, bought a clutch of glossy magazines, and then, leaving my last handful of small change on the counter, I had sauntered through Immigration to the world beyond. In the flight departure lounge the BA 177 boarding light was already flashing, winking adventure. On the other side of the ocean Elly was waiting for me. The journey had begun. Of course it is all fallacy, the romance just a creation of admen and soft-porn merchants. Travel changes nothing except the location. And whoever met anyone remotely interesting on a plane? There was an Egyptian woman I sat next to on a flight from Cairo to Paris once. She had silver hair and sleek features like Nefertiti. But she slept the whole way from takeoff to touchdown, and when she did finally open her magnificent almond eyes, it turned out she didn’t speak a word of English. And as for the myth of erotica in the water closet—well, whoever believed that story anyway? Not me. And certainly not now. Herded in through the giant metal tube, I discovered this particular DC-10 filled with ordinary earthbound people. I ignored them all and barricaded mys...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Sarah Dunant
• Edition: Random House USA
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 13.09.2005
• EAN: 9780812974294
• ISBN: 978-0-8129-7429-4
• Pages: 304
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Catégorie: Littérature > Littérature (récits)