A Landing on the Sun: Michael Frayn - Softcover

Frayn, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571315909 ISBN 13: 9780571315901

Verlag: Faber and Faber, 2017

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Críticas:

An elegance and cunning reminiscent of Henry James. (New York Times Book Review)

Masterly. (Daily Telegraph)

Brilliant . . . Guilt and blame, cause and effect, the heady nature of love and madness; all these issues are raised and pondered . . . A book whose constant is surprise. (Scotland on Sunday)

Here, with great skill and remarkable economy, he seeks not to amuse but to move. But the lightness of the prose, and the delicacy of the irony belong to the Frayn we know, though here in the service of new depth, new probings. (Anthony Burgess Independent)

Reseña del editor:

For fifteen years, ever since the taciturn civil servant Stephen Summerchild fell to his death from a window, there have been rumours. So Brian Jessel, a young member of the Cabinet Office, is diverted from his routine work and asked to prepare an internal report. Slowly, from the archives in the registry, Jessel begins to reconstruct Summerchild's last months. It emerges that, at a time when America had just put men on the moon, the British were involved in an even bolder project, and that Summerchild was investigating a phenomenon as common as sunlight, but as powerful and dangerous as any of the forces that modern science has known. The secret world into which Brian Jessel stumbles turns out to be even more extraordinary than his department had feared.

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• Verlag: Faber and Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0571315909
• ISBN 13: 9780571315901
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272