The Pagan House - Softcover

Flusfeder, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007249616 ISBN 13: 9780007249619

Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2008

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‘Flusfeder is a genuinely original writer with a fine ear and fluent style. His previous novel, “The Gift”, raised expectations of a flowering talent; this does not disappoint.’ The Mail on Sunday

‘Quite a book...’The Pagan House’ is the kind of book that, as it eschews authorial stridency, plays down its finest passages of prose and tells its best jokes in an undertone, risks not being recognised as the small masterpiece that it is. After reading it, though, you won’t want it any other way.’ Daily Telegraph

‘Flusfeder employs thriller-like pace to his narrative. The prose is terse yet commanding...Where Flusfeder excels is the timing and tying individual threads of disparate beings into an inevitable finale.’ Sunday Business Post

‘[A] madly brilliant, hilarious and tender portrait of adolescent angst.’ Daily Mail

‘“The Pagan House” is a sophisticated coming-of-age narrative with, appropriate to any shucking away of childish things, a darkening tone ushered in by the double-twist in Flusfeder’s denouement.’ Sunday Telegraph

‘David Flusfeder is a deliciously talented writer...”The Pagan House” is terrific fun...the early sections, which represent a picture of hormone-adolescence [are] up there with Martin Amis’s The Rachel Papers and Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth.’ New Statesman

‘Some wonderful moments.’ Patrick Ness, Guardian

Reseña del editor:

The much-anticipated new novel from the acclaimed author of ‘The Gift’ – a blend of detective novel, historical fiction and the painful coming-of-age story of a confused young boy.

Edgar was neither hard-bitten nor hard-boiled. He hadn’t seen too much – he’d hardly seen anything at all – and he was bursting, overflowing, with inaccessible juvenile potency. No one would suspect him of a dangerous agenda. But he could not drive a car. And he still needed permission to stay out past suppertime.

Edgar Pagan, nearly thirteen, detests his English mother’s new boyfriend, so when she takes her son away from him across the Atlantic to spend time with his American father, it is a relief and a new adventure for him. He is an unlikely detective, Edgar, but that is what he becomes at the Pagan house, home to his grandmother Fay, and again some years later when he sets down on paper the Pagan past, in particular the peculiar circumstances of his father’s ancestors in the nineteenth century, ‘the story of how I came to be me.’

‘The Pagan House’, David Flusfeder’s extraordinary new novel, is the story of how a family came to be established, of the extreme nineteenth-century Christian sect, the Perfectionists, utopians with a belief in free love, who built that family home. It is about the life and tragic death of Mary Pagan, the shaping force in this unusual family, and the impending death 150 years later of her descendent, Edgar’s grandmother, and the consequent destiny of that house. With its blend of detective novel, historical fiction and the painful coming-of-age of a confused young boy in Edgar, Flusfeder brilliantly weaves these strands together with style and verve. ‘Wise and generous: a complete story and a very good one,’ said Jonathan Franzen of Flusfeder’s last book, ‘the best book you’ll give yourself all year,’ said Will Self. With this new novel he has surpassed himself.

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• Verlag: Harper Perennial
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0007249616
• ISBN 13: 9780007249619
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416