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Fallout de Sadie Jones

Fallout

Autor Sadie Jones
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 mai 2015

Descoperim în Fallout un roman de ficțiune care respectă rigorile dramei psihologice, dar subversează așteptările prin modul în care integrează mediul artistic în însăși structura emoțională a personajelor. Nu este doar o poveste despre succesul pe scenă, ci o explorare a modului în care arta poate deveni un refugiu fragil pentru sufletele „avariate”. Sadie Jones ne transportă în Londra anilor '70, un spațiu al contrastelor, unde idealismul unei tinere generații de scriitori și regizori se lovește de realitatea dură a penelor de curent și a sărăciei urbane. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autoarea construiește dinamica dintre Luke, Paul și Leigh; prietenia lor, forjată în fumul petrecerilor nocturne, devine fundalul unei trădări inevitabile odată cu apariția Ninei.

Pe același raft cu London, Burning de Anthony Quinn, această carte se distinge prin focalizarea intimă pe microcosmosul teatral, transformând tensiunea politică a epocii într-o presiune internă, aproape claustrofobică. Dacă în Small Wars autoarea analiza dezintegrarea onoarei în context militar, iar în The Uninvited Guests explora intruziunea maleficului în spațiul domestic, în Fallout ea revine la tema vulnerabilității umane în fața dorinței. Ritmul este unul contemplativ, lăsând loc tăcerilor dintre replici să spună adevărata poveste a personajelor. Este o lectură despre consecințele actului creativ și despre modul în care loialitatea față de sine poate distruge tot ceea ce ai construit cu ceilalți.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780062292827
ISBN-10: 006229282X
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 131 x 203 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Harpercollins

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută o poveste de dragoste profundă, lipsită de sentimentalism excesiv. Fallout oferă o incursiune autentică în culisele teatrului londonez radical, fiind ideală pentru cei care apreciază proza senzorială și personajele complexe, marcate de trecut. Veți câștiga o perspectivă melancolică asupra sacrificiilor necesare pentru a rămâne fidel propriei viziuni artistice într-o lume în continuă schimbare.

Despre autor

Sadie Jones este o scriitoare britanică de succes, stabilită la Londra, a cărei carieră a debutat fulminant cu romanul The Outcast, laureat al Costa First Novel Award. Stilul său este caracterizat de o atenție minuțioasă la detalii istorice și la mecanismele subtile ale suferinței umane. După succesul critic al unor lucrări precum Small Wars și The Uninvited Guests, Jones s-a impus ca o voce importantă în literatura contemporană, fiind capabilă să penduleze între dramele de familie și tensiunea socială cu o eleganță narativă rară, elemente regăsite din plin și în cel mai recent roman al său, Amy and Lan.

Descriere scurtă

A deeply affecting love story set in the gritty yet magnificent theater world of 1970’s London by the award-winning, bestselling Sadie Jones, author of The Uninvited Guests and The Outcast
Luke is a young playwright: intense, magnetic and hungry for experience. Fleeing a disastrous upbringing, he arrives in London and moves into a flat with Paul, an aspiring producer, and the beautiful, fiery Leigh. The three of them set up a radical theatre company, their friendship forged in rehearsal rooms above pubs, candlelit power cuts, and smoky late-night parties, part of a thrilling new generation of writers, directors, and rising voices. When Nina, a fragile actress, strays towards their group, Luke is captivated by the allure of a kindred damaged soul, and the balance between the friends is threatened. Torn between loyalty, desire, and his own painful past, everything Luke values, even the promise of the future, is in danger. Suddenly the fallout threatens to be immense.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Luke is a young playwright—intense, magnetic, and eager for life. He escapes a disastrous upbringing in the northeast and, arriving in London, meets Paul Driscoll, an aspiring producer, and the beautiful, fiery Leigh Radley, the woman Paul loves.
The three set up a radical theater company, living and working together, forging a romantic connection in candlelit rehearsal rooms during power cuts and smoky late-night parties in Chelsea's run-down flats. The gritty rebellion of pub theater is fighting for its place against a West End dominated by racy revue shows and the giants of twentieth-century drama.
Nina Jacobs is a fragile actress, bullied by her mother and in thrall to a controlling producer. When Luke meets Nina, he recognizes a soul in danger—but how much must he risk to save her?
Everything he has fought for—loyalty, friendship, art—is drawn into the heat of their collision. Now everything Luke values, even the promise of the future, is in danger. Suddenly the fallout threatens to be immense.

Recenzii

“Jones is unflinching as she plots the course of fallout with no shelter, of wounded lives undone by desperation in love and art.” — The New York Times
“The strength of Fallout is the insistent thread of hope that runs through all the humiliation and bad behavior. The result is…a fuller, more emotionally satisfying story.” — The Wall Street Journal
“The novel is at its best when the characters quietly seek an audience for their pleasures, their pains, and the ‘more permanent wounds of their longer lives waiting, undiscovered.’” — New Yorker
“[A] wonderful read. Surprising depth of character, accidents of fate that feel like life, and emotional FALLOUT that heralds new maturity, make this a very satisfying novel.” — Not Another Book Review (Blog)
“Emotionally charged.” — Glamour
“An intoxicating, deeply romantic novel of theater, love, and friendship…With both microscopic precision and operatic emotions, Sadie Jones perfectly captures the exhilaration of the young and the talented as they find their footing in both art and love.” — Booklist (starred review)
“An intoxicating and immersive read... It is a fraught and compelling novel; one that replays itself uncomfortably in the mind long after it is finished.” — Lucy Atkins, The Sunday Times
“Beautifully written... An intense and absorbing story.” — Deirdre O'Brien, Sunday Mirror
“An intelligent, pacy tale of pretty, talented people, striving for recognition but held back by their past…. Every summer needs a One Day-style read; this book is a contender for that crown.” — Anne Ashworth, The Times
“On a par with the Barneses and McEwans of this parish… Jones’s gift - like all great writers - is to leave us wanting so desperately to believe that the story will continue without us once the scenery has been cleared away.” — Elizabeth Day, Observer
“Jones highlights beautifully the energetic, naive, cheap red-wine fug of the Seventies start-up, and its decadent antithesis, the emptiness of fatally compromised success.” — Catherine Taylor, Sunday Telegraph
“Engrossing…Jones’s talent emerges most in the absorbing plot, which convincingly shows how friends can be torn apart by lust and ambition.” — Publishers Weekly
“Jones’s intricate, complex plot, sympathetically drawn characters, and authentic depictions of damaged genius make an unassailable claim for the power of a writer’s detailed observation in the face of formula fiction.” — Library Journal
“Fallout is both deliciously gobble-able and carefully constructed.” — Holly Williams, Independent on Sunday
“This absorbing and romantic novel about love, art and the importance of being true to yourself will draw you in and keep you there until the very last page.” — Mernie Gilmore, Express
“[Fallout] cements her reputation as a writer in the style of William Boyd; able to take on a variety of styles and mould them to her own voice.” — Red
“Sadie Jones has an unerring ability to delve into the depths of characters and reveal both their strengths and their weaknesses.” — Di Speirs in Psychologies
“An enthralling tale of lust, ambition and friendship.” — Hello!

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The intoxicating new novel from the number one bestselling author of The OutcastLondon 1972. It seems a world away from the provincial town he has fled along with his own troubled past, and his new life is unrecognisable - one of friendships forged in pubs, candlelit power cuts, and smoky late-night parties.