One Hand Clapping - Softcover

Burgess, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184668918X ISBN 13: 9781846689185

Verlag: Serpent's Tail, 2013

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Críticas:

Intriguing, offering an incisive commentary on the Americanisation of the UK, and on the way TV acts as an opiate of the masses (Independent)

A funny, pointed novel (New Yorker)

Witty and shrewdly joyful (New York Times Book Review)

One of the cleverest and most original writers of his generation (The Times)

Reseña del editor:

Janet Shirley was always impressed by her husband. Even before he began using his special talent to change their lives beyond recognition. The thing is, Janet doesn't want their lives to change that much - she's quite happy, working at the supermarket, cooking for Howard three times a day, watching quiz shows in the evening.

But once Howard unleashes his photographic brain on the world, the once modest used-car salesman can't seem to stop. And what he sees as the logical conclusion isn't something Janet can agree to. She will not consent to Howard's grand gesture.

Written out of Burgess' disgust at western decadence and degradation, One Hand Clapping casts a jaded eye over our values, drawing a conclusion that still resonates fifty years on.

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• Verlag: Serpent's Tail
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 184668918X
• ISBN 13: 9781846689185
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240