The Painter's Friend

An urgent and blistering story about class, protest and art, from the acclaimed author of Fathers and Sons.

Info autore

Howard Cunnell’s acclaimed memoir Fathers and Sons was read on BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week, and described as ‘unique, and uniquely beautiful’ (Financial Times); it explores his experiences as a fatherless man raising a transgender son. His novel The Sea on Fire, ‘maps new noir territory in an incandescent underwater world’ (Guardian), and draws from Cunnell’s life as a dive guide and scuba instructor. He is the contributing editor of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road: The Original Scroll, which the New York Times called ‘the living version for our time’. He lives in Sussex.

Riassunto

An urgent and blistering story about class, protest and art, from the acclaimed author of Fathers and Sons.

Prefazione

An urgent and blistering story about class, protest and art, from the acclaimed author of Fathers and Sons.

Testo aggiuntivo

It’s a timely novel, but it also seems to wear its big issues lightly. The particularity and peculiarity of the setting and cast really brought it to life and gripped me

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Howard Cunnell, Cunnell Howard
• Editore: Picador Uk
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 18 anni
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 14.04.2022
• EAN: 9781529030945
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-3094-5
• Pagine: 288
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 197 mm x 20 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION / Political, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Demonstrations & protest movements, Environmentalist, conservationist and Green organizations, Corruption in politics, government and society