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Man at the Helm de Nina Stibbe

Man at the Helm: The Lizzie Vogel Series

Autor Nina Stibbe
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 iun 2015

Remarcăm în Man at the Helm o poartă de intrare captivantă în universul literar al Ninei Stibbe, marcând începutul îndrăgitei The Lizzie Vogel Series. Suntem de părere că forța acestui roman rezidă în perspectiva unică a micuței Lizzie, o naratoare de nouă ani care procesează drama destrămării familiei sale prin filtrul unei logici infantile, deopotrivă absurdă și înduioșătoare. Acțiunea ne transportă în Leicestershire-ul rural al anilor '70, un spațiu unde convențiile sociale sunt rigide, iar o mamă singură, cu înclinații spre băutură și scriitură mediocră de piese de teatru, devine rapid paria comunității. La intersecția dintre Paradise Lodge și Reasons to be Cheerful, această primă parte a trilogiei combină vulnerabilitatea copilăriei cu un umor britanic sec, transformând o situație domestică precară într-o comedie a erorilor. Putem afirma că Stibbe reușește să evite sentimentalismul gratuit, oferind în schimb o cronică onestă despre reziliență. Ritmul este susținut de campania nefirească a lui Lizzie și a surorii sale de a „vâna” un tată vitreg pentru a salva familia de la asistența socială. Spre deosebire de tonul introspectiv din Normal People Don't Live Like This, unde relația mamă-fiică este marcată de o alienare profundă, Man at the Helm păstrează o căldură intrinsecă, chiar și în momentele cele mai haotice ale vieții de familie.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241967805
ISBN-10: 0241967805
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 128 x 195 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția The Lizzie Vogel Series
Seria The Lizzie Vogel Series

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care savurează umorul britanic inteligent și poveștile spuse din perspectiva copiilor precoce. Veți descoperi o explorare plină de farmec a Angliei rurale din anii '70, unde supraviețuirea unei familii depinde de ingeniozitatea celor mici. Este o lectură reconfortantă, ideală pentru cei care au apreciat spiritul observațional din Love, Nina și caută o poveste despre loialitate filială în circumstanțe neobișnuite.

Despre autor

Nina Stibbe, născută în Leicester, este o voce distinctă în literatura contemporană britanică, celebrată pentru capacitatea de a extrage umor din cotidian. S-a făcut remarcată cu volumul de memorii Love, Nina, adaptat ulterior într-o serie BBC de succes. Opera sa include trilogia dedicată lui Lizzie Vogel, din care fac parte romanele Man at the Helm, Paradise Lodge și Reasons to be Cheerful — acesta din urmă fiind recompensat cu prestigiosul premiu Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse pentru ficțiune comică în 2019. Stilul său este adesea comparat cu cel al marilor umoriști englezi, fiind apreciat pentru onestitatea și precizia observației sociale.

Descriere scurtă

Man at the Helm, the debut novel from Nina Stibbe - the much-loved author of Love, Nina - is a wildly comic, brilliantly sharp-eyed novel about the horrors of being an attractive divorcée in an English village in the 1970s, and a family's fall from grace . . .

My sister and I and our little brother were born (in that order) into a very good situation and apart from the odd new thing life was humdrum and comfortable until an evening in 1970 when my mother listened in to my father's phone call and ended up blowing her nose on a tea towel - a thing she'd only have done in an absolute emergency.

Not long after her parents' separation, heralded by an awkward scene involving a wet Daily Telegraph and a pan of cold eggs, nine-year-old Lizzie Vogel, her sister and little brother and their now divorcée mother are packed off to a small, slightly hostile village in the English countryside. Their mother is all alone, only thirty-one years of age, with three young children and a Labrador. It is no wonder, when you put it like that, that she becomes a menace and a drunk. And a playwright.

Worried about the bad playwriting - though more about becoming wards of court and being sent to the infamous Crescent Home for Children - Lizzie and her sister decide to contact, by letter, suitable men in the area. In order to stave off the local social worker they urgently need to find a new Man at the Helm.

'All hail a book that's funny!' Barbara Trapido

'[A] joyous read, full of wit and charm . . . I am already longing for Nina Stibbe's next book' Observer

'Nine-year-old Lizzie (our narrator) is the perfect conduit for her creator, just the right mixture of childhood innocence and incredulity for the necessary deadpan delivery of Stibbe's particular brand of comedy. Read it and be charmed' Independent

'A beguilingly comic blend of naivety and precociousness' Sunday Times

Descriere

The very start of Lizzie Vogel's story. From the much-loved author of Love, Nina, discover a wildly comic, brilliantly sharp-eyed novel about one family's fall from grace. 'All hail a book that's funny!' Barbara Trapido ***** Meet Lizzie Vogel, 9. Lizzie is concerned about her newly divorced mother; thirty-one years old and trapped in a hostile village in the English countryside with only three young children and a Labrador for company. It isn't that having a husband is good, but in 1970s rural Leicestershire, not having one is bad. The women in the village think Lizzie's mother is after their husbands - and no one will let the children into the Brownies! Worried about their mother's drinking, her (bad) playwriting and social workers sending them off to the infamous Crescent Home for Children, Lizzie and her sister embark on a misguided campaign to find their mother a new husband. LIZZIE'S STORY CONTINUES IN PARADISE LODGE AND REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL! ***** '[A] joyous read, full of wit and charm . . . I am already longing for Nina Stibbe's next book' OBSERVER 'Just the right mixture of childhood innocence and incredulity for the necessary deadpan delivery of Stibbe's particular brand of comedy. Read it and be charmed' INDEPENDENT 'A beguilingly comic blend of naivety and precociousness' SUNDAY TIMES NINA STIBBE'S NEW NOVEL ONE DAY I SHALL ASTONISH THE WORLD IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW

Recenzii

"Man at the Helm is a winner- a brilliant find....It is full, free, outlandish. And I can't remember a book that made me laugh more. [Stibbe] doesn't take anything seriously. Or rather, she does, and yet her eye and ear for the absurd never desert her- they are part of who she is."—The Guardian
"Some of the most perceptive writing I've read about relationships in a while....this book is very, very funny. Stibbe has a fine eye for absurdity, and her writing has an unforced charm."—The Independent
"[A] joyous read, full of wit and charm . . . I am already longing for Nina Stibbe's next book."—The Observer
PRAISE FOR LOVE, NINA:

"I adored this book, and I could quote from it forever. It's real, odd, life-affirming, sharp, loving...and I can't remember the last time I laughed out loud so frequently while reading."—Nick Hornby, The Believer
"Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude, and aching with sweetness: Love, Nina might be the most charming book I've ever read."—Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette
"These letters are winning from the start...we simply like being in Ms. Stibbe's company."—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
"You'll find yourself laughing out loud but also touched by the book's depiction of family as it should be: people bound not just by blood but by shared affinities, humor and unfailing interest in hearing the answer to the question, 'How was your day?'"—Kim Hubbard, People
"I must MOST EARNESTLY recommend Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe. It's the most piss-funny thing I've read all year. I can't remember a book since Adrian Mole that so brilliantly, drily nailed day-to-day life in BRILLIANT, faux-naive prose."—Caitlin Moran, author of How to Build a Girl
"I have never laughed so hard reading a book. Nina Stibbe's recollections of life as a London nanny are both hilarious and heartwarming."—J. Courtney Sullivan, author of Maine and The Engagements
enchanting. It's one of the funniest¿and oddest¿books I've read in a long time.... [Stibbe's letters] are perceptive and droll, and provide a glimpse into the domestic life of a fascinating literary family."—Moira Hodgson, The Wall Street Journal