A Spot of Bother
lit. obcojęzyczna
Wydawnictwo Vintage Books |
Oprawa miękka |
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Opis produktu:
George Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little cautious, not at quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood, or manly bonhomie. He does not understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. `The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely.` Some things in life, however, cannot be ignored.At 61, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels and listening to a bit of light jazz. Then his tempestuous daughter, Katie, announces that she is getting re-married, to the deeply inappropriate Ray. Her family is not pleased - as her brother Jamie observes, Ray has `strangler`s hands.` Katie can`t decide if she loves Ray, or loves the wonderful way he has with her son Jacob, and her mother Jean is a bit put out by all the planning and arguing the wedding has occasioned, which get in the way of her quite fulfilling late-life affair with one of her husband`s ex-colleagues. And the tidy and pleasant life Jamie has created crumbles when he fails to invite his lover, Tony, to the dreaded nuptials.
Unnoticed in the uproar, George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip, and quietly begins to lose his mind. The way these damaged people fall apart - and come together - as a family is the true subject of Haddon`s disturbing yet amusing portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely.
A SPOT OF BOTHER is Mark Haddon`s unforgettable follow-up to the internationally beloved bestseller The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Here the madness - literally - of family life proves rich comic fodder for Haddon`s crackling prose andbittersweet insights into misdirected love.
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Dział: | Literatura obcojęzyczna |
Wydawnictwo: | Vintage Books |
Oprawa: | miękka |
Okładka: | miękka |
Wprowadzono: | 12.03.2020 |