The Bricks that Built the Houses - Softcover

Tempest, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1620409038 ISBN 13: 9781620409039

Verlag: Bloomsbury USA, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

The debut novel from "dynamic" "wunderkind" Kate Tempest proves her talent to be boundless and unstoppable.*

Becky, Harry, and Leon are leaving London in a fourth-hand Ford with a suitcase full of stolen money, in a mess of tangled loyalties and impulses. But can they truly leave the city that's in their bones?

Kate Tempest's novel reaches back through time--through tensely quiet dining rooms and crassly loud clubs--to the first time Becky and Harry meet. It sprawls through their lives and those they touch--of their families and friends and faces on the street--revealing intimacies and the moments that make them. And it captures the contemporary struggle of urban life, of young people seeking jobs or juggling jobs, harboring ambitions and making compromises.

The Bricks that Built the Houses is an unexpected love story. It's about being young, but being part of something old. It's about how we become ourselves, and how we effect our futures. Rich in character and restless in perspective, driven by ethics and empathy, it asks--and seeks to answer--how best to live with and love one another.

*Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kate Tempest grew up in south-east London, where she still lives. Her first poetry collection Everything Speaks in its Own Way was released on her own Zingaro imprint. Her epic poem, Brand New Ancients – a modern-day myth set in south London – won the Ted Hughes Prize in 2013, making her the first-ever recipient under 40. Her extensive international tour of Brand New Ancients sold out everywhere and gained a five star review in the New York Times. Her plays include GlassHouse, Wasted and Hopelessly Devoted. She released an album, Balance, with Sound of Rum in 2011 and her debut solo album, Everybody Down, a narrative-led hip hop record based on The Bricks That Built The Houses, was released on Big Dada records in 2014 to wide critical acclaim. Kate Tempest's second poetry collection, Hold Your Own, will be published in October 2014.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1620409038
• ISBN 13: 9781620409039
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
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