Daphne - Softcover

Boast, Will

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783781513 ISBN 13: 9781783781515

Verlag: Granta Books, 2019

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Críticas

'Boast's real forte is the evocation of emotion... Daphne is sleek and artful, it is also quite touching'--Literary Review

'Boast's novel is wry and witty, tender and weird... [It] expands beyond easy romance into a political exploration of the necessity of empathy, and the toll empathy can take. Daphne is at once a fable and a beautifully engaged reflection on love. It is strange and heart-warming in equal measure'--Irish Times

'This engaging debut novel set in San Francisco is a modern retelling of the Daphne and Apollo myth... it makes us coolly contemplate how and why we feel'--Guardian

'Set in the era of Occupy Wall Street, in a San Francisco where rich techies coexist with the homeless and addicted, Daphne is a clever consideration of the place of feeling in both public and private life... Daphne gets away with using illness as a metaphor to illuminate the emotional management we all perform daily - while still following the eternally gratifying arc of the romance novel'--Financial Times

'Thought-provoking... Written in a modishly clipped style that captures Daphne's repression, Boast memorably tests how far people will go to seal themselves off from physical and emotional pain'--Sunday Times

'A profoundly modern fable that is simultaneously tragic and inspiring...deeply immersive, [a] sensory experience' ----TLS

Reseña del editor

Daphne suffers from a rare medical condition; her body shuts down when she feels strong emotions. As a result she has built strong walls between herself and the world, avoiding passion, anger, disappointment and surprise. But when she meets Ollie, who seems to see through her armour, who seems to want to know the real Daphne, her carefully built defences begin to crumble. In this gripping and tender modern myth, Will Boast explores the unexamined assumptions we make about our bodies and our relationships through the prism of a soulful contemporary love story.

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• Verlag: Granta Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1783781513
• ISBN 13: 9781783781515
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288