The Rain Before It Falls

Zusatztext “A triumph . . . from its amazing narrative voice to its satisfying and moving conclusion.” — San Francisco Chronicle “Coe painstakingly builds a psychological mystery evoking the suspense and dread of books such as Ian McEwan's Atonement …. Emotionally overwhelming.” — People “Quiet! elegiac! never straying into sentiment! [ The Rain Before It Falls ] is perhaps the most spare yet poetic of Coe's novels.” — The Boston Globe “A gripping family drama worthy of Alice Munro.” — Time Out New York "A profoundly moving meditation on misfired relationships! Coe's elegaic seventh novel plumbs the depths of withheld love and emotional austerity among three generations of emotionally dysfunctional women." — James Urquhart! Financial Times "Concentrated and controlled [with] a depth of human understanding...for the admiring reader! the question may be whether The Rain Before It Falls is a diversion for Jonathan Coe! or whether it quietly announces a new direction." —Frances Taliaferro! The Washington Post Book World “A novel told in a simple! decent voice is as welcome as it is rare…Absorbing! graceful and melancholy.” —Karen R. Long! Cleveland Plain-Dealer “Dignified and sure…Skillfully layered and plotted.” — The Atlantic Monthly “A complex intergenerational mosaic of mothers and daughters.” — The New Yorker “Precise and considered! restrained but unblinking…[Coe’s] tensest and most affecting work.” —Matthew Peters! The Boston Globe “Jonathan Coe’s small masterpiece.” —Regina Marler! New York Observer “Coe articulates a fierce! emotional current whose sweep catches the reader and doesn’t let go until the very end.” — Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Coe has received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, the Prix Médicis Etranger, and, for The Rotters' Club , the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for the most original comic writing. He lives in London. Klappentext As a young girl! Rosamond is sent to Shropshire to escape the Blitz. Here! in the countryside! she forms a close bond with her older cousin! Beatrix! a young woman haunted by anger and resentment. Sixty years later! just before her death! Rosamond records her memories on cassettes! addressing them to a distant cousin—a near stranger-named Imogen. As Gill! her beloved niece! listens to these tapes! a heart—stopping family saga is revealed. In this masterful portrait of three generations of woman! Jonathan Coe exposes the profound reserves of hope and loss within the lives of ordinary woman. Number three: the caravan. I have not yet described Warden Farm–the house itself–in any detail, but I think I will talk about the caravan first. It was one of the first things that Beatrix showed me in the garden, and it quickly became the place where we would retreat and hide together. You could say that everything started from there. Aunt Ivy gave me this photograph herself, I remember, at the end of my time living at her house. It was one of her few real acts of kindness. Beneath her warm and welcoming exterior, she turned out to be a rather distant, unapproachable woman. She and her husband had built for themselves an active and comfortable life, which revolved mainly around hunting and shooting and all the associated social activities which came with them. She was a busy organizer of hunt balls, tennis-club suppers and the like. Also, she doted on her two sons, athletic and sturdy boys–good-natured, too, but not very well endowed in the brains department, it seems to me in retrospect. None of these things, at any rate, made her inclined to expend much of her attention on me–the unwanted guest, the evacuee–or indeed on her daughter, Beatrix. Therein lay the seeds of the problem. Neglected and resentful, Beatrix seized upon me as soon as I arrived, knowi...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jonathan Coe
• Editore: Vintage USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 10.03.2009
• EAN: 9780307388162
• ISBN: 978-0-307-38816-2
• Pagine: 304
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 202 mm x 11 mm
• Serie: Vintage Contemporaries; Vintage Contemporaries
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi