Glow

Zusatztext “A mixture of speed! filigreed narration and Pynchon-esque social satire. . . . Glow burns with inventive energy."  -- San Francisco Chronicle     " Virtuosic. . . . Reads at a breakneck pace of a who-done-it potboiler." – The Los Angeles Times     "A pulpy whodunit! but it develops into something much weirder [that] by the end you might feel as if your brain had been CrossFit training." -- Entertainment Weekly   "Antic [and] madly engaging. . . . [Beauman] has a boundless ability to entertain." -- The Wall Street Journal “A novel that wakes us up . . . enchants readers with an intricate plot! dazzles with distinct characters [and] simply thrills with a unique! distinctive writing style.” — Pittsburgh Post-Gazett "Beauman's zest for everyday comedy and a well-turned sentence is as evident as ever from the first scene." -- The Washington Post "A raucous! seriocomic mash-up of mystery and noir. . . . This smart and streetwise novel will bring a glow to the reader as well." -- Library Journal  “Glow does not glow—it dazzles.” — The Independent ! UK  “We are in the presence of a genuine talent here. . . . Beauman's great originality and skill [and] intelligent aesthetic often provide pure revitalizing reading pleasure; he is playful! arresting! unnerving! opulent! rude and—above all! deliciously! startlingly! exuberantly fresh.” — The Guardian ! UK Informationen zum Autor NED BEAUMAN was born in London in 1985 and studied philosophy at the University of Cambridge. His first novel, Boxer, Beetle, won the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Award and the Goldberg Prize; his second, The Teleportation Accident, was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. In 2013, he was the youngest on Granta’ s once-a-decade list of the Best Young British Novelists. Klappentext South London: foxes are behaving strangely! Burmese immigrants are going missing! and everyone is trying to get hold of a new party drug called Glow. Raf! a young man who suffers from a rare sleep disorder! spends his days walking Rose! a bull terrier who guards a pirate radio station! and his nights at raves in warehouses and launderettes. When his friend Theo vanishes without a trace! Raf's efforts to find him lead straight into the heart of a global corporate conspiracy. Meanwhile! he's falling in love with Cherish! a beautiful young woman he met at one of those raves! but he'll soon discover that there is far more to her than meets the eye. 9780385352604|excerpt Beauman / GLOW 12:49 a.m. When he first sees her, Raf is sitting on a washing machine about to swallow an eighth of a gram of what is apparently a mixture of speed, monosodium glutamate, and an experimental social anxiety disorder medication for dogs. That, anyway, is what it sounded like Isaac told him, but the music in the laundrette is pretty loud and he wonders if he might have misheard. The powder has been divided between two cigarette papers and then the cigarette papers have been folded up and twisted to make those tight sealed parcels that always remind him of pork wontons, and Isaac has already gulped down his wonton, but Raf still has his in his hand, because he can’t stop staring at the girl by the door. She’s half white and half something else, maybe half Thai; and she has one of those faces where the entire bone structure seems to ramify from the cheekbones in such a way that the result looks like a 3D computer graphic from the eighties because it’s composed of such an economical number of sharp, flat planes, except that the angles are confused here by strands of long black hair escaping from where she’s pinned the rest of it up at the back of her head; and she has a small mouth folded towards a natural semi-pout that must be a go...

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• Autori: Ned Beauman
• Editore: Vintage USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 26.01.2016
• EAN: 9780804172165
• ISBN: 978-0-8041-7216-5
• Pagine: 256
• Dimensioni: 132 mm x 203 mm x 18 mm
• Serie: Vintage crime/Black Lizard; Vintage crime/Black Lizard
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi