Late in the Day: A Novel
Autor Tessa Hadleyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 feb 2020
Ce rămâne dintr-o prietenie de o viață atunci când pilonul ei central dispare fără avertisment? În Late in the Day, Tessa Hadley ne invită să observăm, cu o precizie aproape chirurgicală, anatomia a două cupluri a căror existență împletită timp de trei decenii este forțată să se reconfigureze. Notăm cu interes cum moartea lui Zachary nu funcționează doar ca un element declanșator de doliu, ci ca un catalizator care scoate la iveală nemulțumiri mocnite și loialități chestionabile. Considerăm că forța acestui roman rezidă în capacitatea autoarei de a surprinde acele „configurații alternative” ale vieții noastre, acele poteci neexplorate care devin vizibile doar în momente de criză. Structura narativă este una fluidă, pendulând cu eleganță între prezentul apăsător din Londra și amintirile formative din tinerețea personajelor. Stilul lui Hadley, evocativ și lipsit de artificii inutile, transformă banalul cotidian într-un spațiu al revelației psihologice. Simțim aici forța narativă a lui Bill Clegg combinată cu sensibilitatea pentru detaliul domestic a lui Cathy Rentzenbrink — dar cu un glas propriu, mai cerebral și mai atent la nuanțele limbajului. Față de explorarea revoluției sociale din Free Love sau de fragmentele de viață din Bad Dreams and Other Stories, acest roman pare să fie punctul de maximă maturitate al autoarei, concentrându-se pe spațiul claustrofobic, dar infinit de bogat, al intimității domestice. Este o lectură despre cum timpul nu doar vindecă, ci și erodează certitudinile pe care ne-am construit întreaga existență.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 006247670X
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care apreciază proza psihologică rafinată și studiile de personaj profunde. Late in the Day oferă o perspectivă onestă asupra modului în care doliul poate distorsiona relațiile, în loc să le sudeze. Veți câștiga o înțelegere mai bogată a complexității legăturilor umane, totul într-o limbă engleză de o eleganță rară, care transformă fiecare observație într-o mică revelație despre propria viață.
Despre autor
Tessa Hadley este o figură centrală a literaturii britanice contemporane, apreciată pentru finețea observației și stilul său impecabil. Autoare a șase romane și a mai multor volume de povestiri, Hadley colaborează constant cu publicația The New Yorker, unde și-a consolidat reputația de maestru al prozei scurte. Lucrările sale, precum The London Train sau Clever Girl, au fost frecvent incluse pe listele de selecție ale marilor premii literare, inclusiv Guardian First Book Award. Trăiește în Londra, oraș care servește adesea drept decor pentru explorările sale asupra clasei de mijloc și a dinamicii familiale.
Descriere scurtă
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice |A Parnassus First Editions Club Pick | Powell’s Indispensable Book Club Pick | A Washington Post Notable Book | A Slate Best Book of the Year | A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year | A Bookpage Best Book of the Year
The lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in the latest from Tessa Hadley, the acclaimed novelist and short story master who “recruits admirers with each book” (Hilary Mantel).
Alexandr and Christine and Zachary and Lydia have been friends since they first met in their twenties. Thirty years later, Alex and Christine are spending a leisurely summer’s evening at home when they receive a call from a distraught Lydia: she is at the hospital. Zach is dead.
In the wake of this profound loss, the three friends find themselves unmoored; all agree that Zach, with his generous, grounded spirit, was the irreplaceable one they couldn’t afford to lose. Inconsolable, Lydia moves in with Alex and Christine. But instead of loss bringing them closer, the three of them find over the following months that it warps their relationships, as old entanglements and grievances rise from the past, and love and sorrow give way to anger and bitterness.
Late in the Day explores the complex webs at the center of our most intimate relationships, to expose how, beneath the seemingly dependable arrangements we make for our lives, lie infinite alternate configurations. Ingeniously moving between past and present and through the intricacies of her characters’ thoughts and interactions, Tessa Hadley once again “crystallizes the atmosphere of ordinary life in prose somehow miraculous and natural” (Washington Post).
Recenzii
“[Hadley] is a gifted anatomist of human relationships, with those among family members being her specialty. Her particular genius lies in the elegance and precision with which she captures the fleeting emotion, the passing, indefinable perception or tiny epiphany.” — Katherine Powers, Wall Street Journal
“Gorgeous, utterly absorbing…. More than many of her contemporaries, the British writer Tessa Hadley understands that life is full of moments when the past presses up against the present, and when the present transforms the past. Her brilliant new novel, Late in the Day, explores both with equal urgency.” — Margot Livesey, Boston Globe
“Brilliant.... In the hands of a lesser novelist, the intricate tangle of lives at the center of Late in the Day would feel like just such a self-satisfied riddle or, at best, like sly narrative machinations. Because this is Tessa Hadley, it instead feels earned and real and, even in its smallest nuances, important.... It’s to her credit that Hadley manages to be old-fashioned and modernist and brilliantly postmodern all at once.... We’ve seen this before, and we’ve never seen this before, and it’s spectacular.” — Rebecca Makkai, The New York Times Book Review
“Sumptuous… Hadley’s fiction—both long and short—has, with a delicious, detached clarity, observed the shape of relationships: their unconventionality, their transgressions. She is a superb stylist, with none of the pretensions that have latterly been attached to such a term: dispassionate, yet voluptuous in her prose.” — Financial Times
“Strange, unsettling — eerily beautiful, discomfiting, stay-up-late-addictive, sometimes hair-raising.... Always, it’s Hadley’s high-res magnification on the interplay of marital (and friendship, and parental) dynamics that supplies her work’s steady gold.” — Joan Frank, San Francisco Chronicle
“An immersive tale of two intertwined couples…. Hadley tells a juicy story in the voice of a poet.” — People‘s Best New Books
“Tessa Hadley is well-known for her inimitable portrayal of character and her latest effort, Late in the Day, is no disappointment.... A smart exploration of human nature, desire, and friendship.” — Vanity Fair
“Her prose has the penetrating quality of Henry James at his most accessible… and is alert, as Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen were, to how time sculpts, warps or casually destroys us…. A quiet triumph.” — Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times
“The British novelist does what she does best: excavate the tensions and traumas that linger in the most seemingly normal families and relationships.” — Huffington Post
“Reading Late in the Day feels both prurient—we are so deeply inside the emotional rhythms of this home—and marvelous, in its elevation of a boring middle-class marriage into a fable of warring identities.” — New Republic
“A domestic drama of the first order. The marriages are characters in themselves; going through transformative arcs of their own.” — Refinery29
“Riveting…. A four-person character study—here as always, Hadley is a master of interpersonal dynamics—the novel captures the complexity of loss.” — Kirkus, starred review
“Perceptive, finely wrought…. Hadley is a writer of the first order, and this novel gives her the opportunity to explore, with profound incisiveness and depth, the inevitable changes inherent to long-lasting marriages.” — Publishers Weekly
“A layered and compelling read.” — Booklist
“In the fine tradition of women’s fiction by authors such as Margaret Drabble, Penelope Lively, and Rachel Cusk exploring relationships among the cultured classes, Hadley’s place is secure.” — Library Journal, starred review
“An excellent place to start if you haven’t yet discovered Tessa Hadley.” — Book Riot
Notă biografică
Tessa Hadley is the author of six highly acclaimed novels, including Clever Girl and The Past, as well as three short story collections, most recently Bad Dreams and Other Stories, which won the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her stories appear regularly in The New Yorker; in 2016 she was awarded the Windham Campbell Prize and the Hawthornden Prize. She lives in London.
Descriere
'Unflinching, intelligent and fascinating' Marian KeyesThe lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this Sunday Times bestselling novelAlex and Christine and Zach and Lydia have been inseparable since their twenties.