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Clever Girl de Tessa Hadley

Clever Girl

Autor Tessa Hadley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 mar 2014

La suprafață, Clever Girl pare a fi o cronică liniștită a unei vieți obișnuite, însă, pe măsură ce parcurgem paginile, descoperim o geografie emoțională de o intensitate surprinzătoare. Suntem martorii transformării Stellei, o femeie care navighează prin deceniile istoriei britanice recente, de la idealismul anilor '60 până la complexitățile maturității. Observăm cum Tessa Hadley refuză liniaritatea convențională în favoarea unei structuri fragmentate, alcătuită din episoade sculptate cu precizie, care funcționează ca niște ferestre deschise spre momentele definitorii ale identității umane.

La intersecția dintre Accidents in the Home și Everything Will Be All Right, această lucrare combină explorarea minuțioasă a legăturilor de familie cu o analiză subtilă a modului în care generațiile de femei se raportează la ambiție și dorință. Găsim în acest text aceeași preocupare pentru „micile momente” care a consacrat volumul de povestiri Married Love, însă aici, Hadley extinde cadrul, permițând dramei să erupă sub forma unor eșecuri profesionale sau a unor pierderi tragice. Stilul său, de o acuratețe frapantă, reușește să eleveze banalul la rangul de artă, oferindu-ne un portret care este, simultan, al unei femei oarecare și al unei figuri extraordinare. În contextul operei sale, cartea rafinează temele explorate în lucrări precum Late in the Day, aprofundând impactul pe care timpul și clasa socială îl au asupra destinului individual. Rezultatul este o experiență de lectură care nu mizează pe artificii, ci pe adevărul crud și poetic al experienței trăite.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780099570523
ISBN-10: 0099570521
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care apreciază proza britanică contemporană de înaltă ținută. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei care caută profunzime psihologică și o analiză onestă a condiției feminine, fără clișee. Veți câștiga o perspectivă nuanțată asupra modului în care evenimentele istorice și sociale modelează psihicul individual, totul într-un stil narativ ce amintește de Alice Munro prin precizie și observație.

Despre autor

Tessa Hadley este una dintre cele mai apreciate voci ale literaturii britanice contemporane, cunoscută pentru capacitatea sa de a diseca viața domestică cu o claritate chirurgicală. Autoare a mai multor romane de succes, printre care Accidents in the Home (nominalizat la Guardian First Book Award) și The London Train, Hadley a publicat frecvent și proză scurtă în prestigioasa revistă The New Yorker. Volumele sale de povestiri, precum Sunstroke și Bad Dreams and Other Stories, au consolidat reputația sa de observator fin al relațiilor umane. Trăiește în Londra, continuând să exploreze în scrierile sale temele clasei, familiei și ale memoriei.

Descriere

Stella was a clever girl, everyone thought so. Living with her mother and rather unsatisfactory stepfather in suburban respectability she reads voraciously, smokes until her voice is hoarse and dreams of a less ordinary life. But these things come at a price and one that Stella despite all her cleverness doesn't realise until it is too late.

Recenzii

“Irresistibly charming.” — Vogue
“Hadley’s prose is both precise and imaginative….Her genteel style belies the many pointed insights she has to offer about female ambition and desire.” — New York Times
“Looking for the next Kate Atkinson or Alice Munro? Pick up this lovely novel.” — People
“Subtle....A story that doesn’t overreach, about a character who feels real, told in prose that isn’t ornate yet is startlingly exact. The effect is a fine and well-chosen pileup of experiences that gather meaning and power….Stella may not stand out, but Tessa Hadley certainly does.” — Meg Wolitzer, New York Times Book Review
“Involving…. Intrigues and engages…. The smooth narrative echoes Hadley’s cool and precise prose.... There’s plenty of family drama (including murder) but Hadley’s strength is in describing what is often left unnoticed.” — Financial Times (London)
“Ultimately, this is a beautiful and precisely drawn portrait of an everywoman, both extraordinary and ordinary.” — Melanie Cremins, Minneapolis Star Tribune
“One woman’s story comes to exemplify a whole era in this marvelous novel. Tessa Hadley writes with a poet’s attentiveness to language, and finds the profound and wondrous in the seemingly quietest of lives.” — Ron Rash, author of Serena
“With Clever Girl, Tessa Hadley examines the blunt force of young adulthood. She deftly portrays this short stretch of time in which we make many of the most important decisions of our lives, all while driving under the influence of ignorance and inchoate sexuality.” — Carol Anshaw, author of Carry the One
“A rich, absorbing novel.” — Anne Landsman, Vanity Fair
“Quietly brilliant….Hadley has always been adept at drawing out the unrecognisable from the everyday….Domestic fiction is often disparaged as less than serious, but Hadley demonstrates admirably that the genre can carry weight.” — Sunday Times, London
“Lives which are unsophisticated yet experienced intensely, and gorgeously erudite prose are the distinguishing features of Tessa Hadley’s writing.” — Daily Telegraph, London
“Like Munro, Hadley is a writer both exact and lyrical, and there are many pleasures to be found along the way, particularly her sensual descriptions of nature, adolescence, and maternity.” — The Guardian, London
“Compelling….For all Stella’s spikiness and grittiness, there is a sensuousness to Hadley’s writing which revels in richly prolix descriptions of sights and states of mind….Hadley has a genius for pithy analysis….The result consistently rings true despite its very literary artistry.” — The Times, London
“Tessa Hadley is a clever writer who likes to play with form. Like Amish quilts, her novels are made up of homespun, domestic material, delicately worked over. Then you step back and see the bold structural decisions behind their composition” — New Statesman, London
“It’s this very ordinariness that makes Hadley’s book so captivating. Clever Girl is one of those glorious novels about nothing in particular and everything there is in life, all at the same time.” — The National, London
“This is Hadley’s extraordinary skill as a novelist: to navigate and narrate the fleeting moments in an individual’s life when the future crystallises, by choice and circumstance, for good or for bad....Clever Girl is a remarkable novel by one of this country’s finest, if most unassuming talents.” — Literary Review, London
“Accomplished, elegant....This novel is the life story of an ordinary, middle-aged woman-Stella. Only that she is not ordinary because Tessa Hadley is writing her into existence and is behind her like a following wind….Hadley writes as a masterly illustrator might draw.” — The Observer, London
“Hadley remains so fixed in Stella’s viewpoint that whatever this stubborn, lonely, eloquent character has to tell us, we accept....Subtle, intelligent, and realistic storytelling.” — Evening Standard, London
“An intimate, engrossing and eminently English coming of middle-age story from one of Britain’s finest writers….The narrative is episodic and deeply personal, but slowly coalesces to form a mosaic of British life over the past 50 years.” — The Independent, London
“Tessa Hadley is wonderful at surprising us with the domestic dramas that stir the embers of everyday life….Her reminiscences can resemble little bombs….Hadley can make even English weather seem enthralling.” — Toronto Star
“Told in a series of perfectly observed moments, Clever Girl is not about what you want your life to be, but what you do with what life hands you….An elegant, accomplished novel.” — Lauren Bufferd, BookPage
“The simplicity of its story is one of this novel’s great strengths: the uncluttered plot allows for Stella’s pains, humiliations, and instances of self-discovery to be confidently inhabited and rendered with emotional precision….This carefully wrought novel transcends mere character study.” — Sinéad O'Shea, Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Hadley displays the keen insight and masterful portrayal of the domestic life for which she has become known.” — Michele Leber, Booklist
“A uniquely gifted writer, Hadley, never vague, possesses a narrative voice that moves the characters through their phases with parenthetic irony. Like an artist dabbing in precise luminous details, she has a masterly grasp of pivotal moments and renders them with brilliant economy.” — Joyce Townsend, Library Journal (starred review)
“Like Alice McDermott’s Someone, it’s the story of an ordinary woman’s life, so closely observed it becomes sublime…..It’s Hadley’s brilliance to show how the jarring desires, the pieces that don’t fit together, nonetheless make a full life.” — Tricia SpringstubbCleveland Plain Dealer
“Tessa Hadley gives us everyday people, and makes their lives seem like works of art. Here, in her latest, we follow Stella through life, where Hadley gets all of her failings and little triumphs to shine like prized gems.” — Jason Diamond, Flavorwire
“Hadley’s prose is delightful to read.” — Adela Kim, Harvard Crimson
“Hadley achieves a good balance between subtlety and romance, the domestic and the sensational. Though each chapter could stand alone...they add up to a complete, nuanced portrait of a woman who feels as knowable and real as a fictional character can.” — Christine Pivovar, Kansas City Star
“Masterful, understated….Clever Girl, like the fiction of V.S. Pritchett or Alice McDermott, is devoted to capturing personality through small actions and expressions, to sparking characters into a vivid flame with a few exact descriptions and to distilling domestic settings into precious, even exalted significance.” — Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal