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Insatiable de Daisy Buchanan

Insatiable

Autor Daisy Buchanan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 feb 2022

În inima Londrei contemporane, acolo unde succesul se măsoară în lumânări scumpe și aparențe impecabile pe rețelele sociale, Insatiable deschide o fereastră onestă către vulnerabilitatea unei generații. Considerăm că alegerea acestui decor nu este întâmplătoare; orașul devine un personaj rece, o scenă pe care Violet, o tânără blocată într-un job fără perspective și cu inima frântă, încearcă să-și redefinească identitatea. Trecerea de la izolarea apartamentului său modest la opulența senzuală a casei soților Lottie și Simon marchează începutul unei explorări curajoase a limitelor dorinței.

Reținem modul în care Daisy Buchanan reușește să echilibreze umorul caustic cu o tristețe profundă, aproape palpabilă. Stilul său este direct, fără menajamente, surprinzând acea căutare disperată de a aparține cuiva, chiar și atunci când prețul este pierderea de sine. Imaginați-vă tensiunea viscerală și explorarea nevoii de a fi văzută din Acts of Desperation de Megan Nolan, mutată într-un decor de petreceri private londoneze, unde erotismul devine o monedă de schimb pentru validare.

În contextul operei sale, dacă în How to Be a Grown Up autoarea oferea îndrumări practice pentru maturizare, iar în Careering analiza relația toxică cu munca, în Insatiable ea plonjează în haosul dorinței feminine. Este o evoluție firească a temelor sale recurente: nevoia de conexiune și dificultatea de a naviga într-o lume care cere perfecțiune constantă. Cartea nu este doar un roman despre sex, ci o analiză fină a modului în care ne proiectăm aspirațiile asupra celorlalți, sperând că ne vor umple golurile interioare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780751580198
ISBN-10: 0751580198
Pagini: 337
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Sphere
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorul care caută o proză modernă, inteligentă și asumată, Insatiable oferă o perspectivă rară asupra sexualității feminine fără filtre. Veți descoperi o poveste care, deși marcată de scene explicite, are la bază o sensibilitate emoțională profundă. Este o lectură despre curajul de a admite că ești pierdut și despre procesul complicat de a învăța să te dorești pe tine însuți înainte de a căuta validarea în brațele altora.

Despre autor

Daisy Buchanan este o jurnalistă, scriitoare și realizatoare de podcast-uri britanică, premiată pentru capacitatea sa de a surprinde spiritul timpului. Cunoscută pentru podcast-ul său de succes 'You're Booked', unde discută despre obiceiurile de lectură ale scriitorilor celebri, ea a devenit o voce influentă în literatura contemporană. Opera sa variază de la non-ficțiune motivațională la romane ce explorează complexitatea vieții femeilor mileniale, precum Limelight sau Careering. Prin stilul său empatic și spiritul observațional ascuțit, Buchanan reușește să transforme experiențele personale în povești universale despre ambiție și vulnerabilitate.

Descriere

THE MOST TALKED ABOUT BOOK OF THE YEAR

'As filthy as it is funny, you won't be able to put it down' Dolly Alderton

'Extremely funny, touching and wonderfully refreshing on women and sexual desire' Marian Keyes

'You will be intoxicated by this witty and honest exploration of female desire' Elle

'Insatiable is a story about loneliness and trying to fit in, about our desire to be loved and included, how it's easy to confuse being wanted with being used. It'll draw people in with the shagging, but people will stay because they're rooting for Violet.' Evening Standard

Stuck in a dead-end job, broken-hearted, broke and estranged from her best friend: Violet's life is nothing like she thought it would be. She wants more - better friends, better sex, a better job - and she wants it now.

So, when Lottie - who looks like the woman Violet wants to be when she grows up - offers Violet the chance to join her exciting start-up, she bites. Only it soon becomes clear that Lottie and her husband Simon are not only inviting Violet into their company, they are also inviting her into their lives.

Seduced by their townhouse, their expensive candles and their Friday-night sex parties, Violet cannot tear herself away from Lottie, Simon or their friends. But is this really the more Violet yearns for? Will it grant her the satisfaction she is so desperately seeking?

Insatiable is about women and desire - lust, longing and the need to be loved. It is a story about being unable to tell whether you are running towards your future or simply running away from your past. The result is at once tender and sad, funny and hopeful.


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'This novel shines with dark humour, sharp intelligence, sizzling sex scenes, and a piercing portrayal of loneliness. Not even the most insatiable reader could ask for more.' Katherine Heiny

'Filthy, funny, and raw, Insatiable is utterly addictive' Louise O'Neill

'Come for the absolute filth and stay for the empathetic and sensitive way that Daisy Buchanan writes about all the chaos and conflict of being a young woman in a hard-edged, hard-faced world.' Red

'A piercing insight into the unreal demands modern women place on themselves and told with real humour and energy, we love this book so much' Stylist

'A raucous unravelling of female desire and bodily pleasures, in all their maddening complexity' Emma Jane Unsworth

'Few books out in the early half of the year are as flat-out entertaining as Buchanan's fizzy, filthy story of a young woman's sexual awakening.' i paper

'I'd call Insatiable Jilly Cooper for the Instagram generation, but that wouldn't do this book justice' Lauren Bravo

'Daisy brings characters to life like no other writer, pumping them full of humour, vulnerability and sexy sexy sex' Lucy Vine

'Gloriously rude and brave about the nature of women's desire' Sophia Money-Coutts

'I raced through this funny, filthy and utterly compelling debut about female sexuality, ambition and vulnerability... I'm still thinking about it long after turning the final page.' Daily Mail

'I can't believe this is a fiction debut - she writes stories like she's been doing it for fifty years' Laura Jane Williams

'Insatiable is an unashamedly filthy and yet deeply sensitive exploration of female desire, aspiration and vulnerability, and Daisy is an exciting new voice in contemporary fiction.' Hannah Beckerman

'It reminded me of Bridget Jones's Diary - if Bridget were bisexual and Daniel Cleaver were a couple who were into group sex.' Julie Cohen

'Erica Jong for the Instagram age.' Keith Stuart

'Intelligent, observant prose that gives a snap-shot of life experienced by millennial women.' Kate Sawyer

'Like going for a drink with your wisest and smuttiest friend' Jessica Moor

'Funny, filthy ... Buchanan offers astute social observation, while the development of Violet as an ardent yet vulnerable heroine to root for makes her a millennial counterpart to Jilly Cooper's Bella or Octavia.' The Sunday Times

Recenzii

You will be intoxicated by this witty and honest exploration of female desire
An escapist romp (with plenty of actual romps to boot)
Extremely funny, touching and wonderfully refreshing on women and sexual desire
British journalist Daisy Buchanan has somehow managed to distinguish herself from the pack, with a novel that's both smoothly observant and brilliantly, giddily filthy
As filthy as it is funny, you won't be able to put it down
Insatiable is a story about loneliness and trying to fit in, about our desire to be loved and included, how it's easy to confuse being wanted with being used. It'll draw people in with the shagging, but people will stay because they're rooting for Violet.
Filthy, funny, and raw, Insatiable is utterly addictive
A piercing insight into the unreal demands modern women place on themselves and told with real humour and energy, we love this book so much
I raced through this funny, filthy and utterly compelling debut about female sexuality, ambition and vulnerability... I'm still thinking about it long after turning the final page.
A frank, funny account of 21st-century lust.
A raucous unravelling of female desire and bodily pleasures, in all their maddening complexity
Buchanan is absolutely fearless and one only hopes that there is a sequel on the way
I'd call Insatiable Jilly Cooper for the Instagram generation, but that wouldn't do this book justice
Daisy brings characters to life like no other writer, pumping them full of humour, vulnerability and sexy sexy sex
Few books out in the early half of the year are as flat-out entertaining as Buchanan's fizzy, filthy story of a young woman's sexual awakening.
Gloriously rude and brave about the nature of women's desire
I can't believe this is a fiction debut - she writes stories like she's been doing it for fifty years
Insatiable is an unashamedly filthy and yet deeply sensitive exploration of female desire, aspiration and vulnerability, and Daisy is an exciting new voice in contemporary fiction.
It reminded me of Bridget Jones's Diary - if Bridget were bisexual and Daniel Cleaver were a couple who were into group sex.
Erica Jong for the Instagram age.
Intelligent, observant prose that gives a snap-shot of life experienced by millennial women.
Like going for a drink with your wisest and smuttiest friend
Come for the absolute filth and stay for the empathetic and sensitive way that Daisy Buchanan writes about all the chaos and conflict of being a young woman in a hard-edged, hard-faced world.
Filthy and fun
Oozing with sex on every page, Buchanan's unapologetic and multi-layered portrayal of desire sizzles in all the right places
Buchanan is an engaging, observant writer who portrays Violet's chaotic life with verve and insight. When we finally get to go on a holiday again, this would be an ideal read for the sunlounger.
Funny, filthy ... Buchanan offers astute social observation, while the development of Violet as an ardent yet vulnerable heroine to root for makes her a millennial counterpart to Jilly Cooper's Bella or Octavia.
The perfect summer romp
Alluring and extremely filthy ... endlessly entertaining this is a shrewd commentary on ambition and young womanhood that also reads as a rollicking page-turner. You may blush. You will certainly love it.

Notă biografică

Daisy Buchanan is an award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster. She has written for every major newspaper and magazine in the UK, from the Guardian to Grazia. She is a TEDx speaker, and she hosts the chart-topping podcast You're Booked, where she interviews legendary writers from all over the world about how their reading habits shape their work. Her other books include the non-fiction titles How To Be A Grown Up and The Sisterhood, and the novel Insatiable: A Love Story For Greedy Girls.