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People Person: Pre-order the follow-up to the bestselling phenomenon, QUEENIE, QUEENIE IS WORKING ON IT, now de Candice Carty-Williams

People Person: Pre-order the follow-up to the bestselling phenomenon, QUEENIE, QUEENIE IS WORKING ON IT, now

Autor Candice Carty-Williams
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 apr 2023

Observăm cu interes cum Candice Carty-Williams reușește să transforme proza contemporană într-o oglindă a vulnerabilităților urbane, folosind un limbaj viu, alert și profund telegenic. În People Person, stilul autoarei devine mai matur, păstrând acea cadență „snappy” care a consacrat-o, dar adăugând o dimensiune contemplativă asupra a ceea ce înseamnă cu adevărat legăturile de sânge. Premisa este una de o ironie amară: dacă ai putea să-ți alegi familia, cu siguranță nu i-ai alege pe membrii clanului Pennington. Dimple, o tânără de treizeci de ani a cărei existență este mediată aproape exclusiv de ecranul telefonului și de iluzia influenței online, se trezește proiectată în realitatea brutală a unei familii fragmentate. Pe același raft cu One of the Family de Sadie Pearse, cartea se distinge prin modul în care refuză sentimentalismul facil, alegând în schimb să exploreze trauma abandonului prin umor și situații de un realism vibrant. Notăm modul în care autoarea construiește punți între cei cinci frați vitregi — Nikisha, Danny, Lizzie, Prynce și Dimple — care nu au în comun decât amintirea vagă a tatălui lor, Cyril, și a jeep-ului său auriu din Brixton. Dacă în Queenie accentul cădea pe criza identitară a unei singure femei, aici Candice Carty-Williams extinde perspectiva către o întreagă constelație familială. Ritmul este susținut de un eveniment neprevăzut care forțează această reuniune improbabilă, transformând romanul într-o odisee modernă a iertării și a regăsirii de sine, departe de filtrele de Instagram.

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ISBN-13: 9781409180128
ISBN-10: 1409180123
Pagini: 343
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția TRAPEZE
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Suntem de părere că această carte este esențială pentru cititorii care apreciază poveștile despre familii disfuncționale tratate cu onestitate și umor negru. People Person oferă o perspectivă autentică asupra singurătății în era digitală și a complexității relațiilor cu părinții absenți. Veți câștiga o înțelegere mai profundă a modului în care traumele comune pot deveni, paradoxal, fundația unei noi forme de apartenență și solidaritate între străini care poartă același nume.

Despre autor

Candice Carty-Williams este o voce de referință în literatura britanică contemporană, cunoscută pentru capacitatea sa de a îmbina comentariul social cu umorul și emoția brută. Romanul său de debut, Queenie, a fost un fenomen cultural, fiind nominalizat la numeroase premii prestigioase, precum Costa First Novel Award și Women's Prize for Fiction. Interesul său pentru comunitate și identitate se reflectă și în alte lucrări, precum eseul din antologia The Gifts of Reading sau povestirea Notting Hill Carnival (Quick Reads). Prin scriitura sa, ea continuă să exploreze experiența persoanelor de culoare în Londra modernă, aducând în prim-plan teme precum sănătatea mintală și dinamica familială.

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Pre-order QUEENIE IS WORKING ON IT, the brand new book from Candice Carty Williams, now

People Person is a triumph. Caleb Azumah Nelson | Wonderful. Marian Keyes | I loved it. Sara Collins

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE BRITISH BOOK AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF QUEENIE

If you could choose your family, you wouldn't choose the Penningtons

Dimple, Nikisha, Danny, Lizzie and Prynce are half-siblings who don't have much in common except abandonment issues. But when a catastrophic event forces them to reconnect with each other and with Cyril Pennington, the absent father they never really knew, things start to get complicated fast . . .

People Person is a propulsive story of heart, humour and homecoming, about the true nature of family and the complexities of belonging.

Recenzii

Wonderful. People Person is about 5 half-siblings (1 dad, 4 mothers) who, in response to a crisis, meet as adults and start shaping themselves into a family. It's a warm novel, funny and full of emotional intelligence. The tone is light-hearted, even comic at times, but underneath there's an undertow, a steady drumbeat reminding us of all the microaggressions black people experience on a daily basis - and that white people are mostly oblivious of. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
People Person is a triumph. I was so moved by this tender, often humorous, portrait of these five siblings, their burgeoning relationships and all their complexities. I loved every one of these beautifully rendered characters and I'm sure the world will too. I couldn't put it down.
People Person is fresh, funny and tender - Candice is the voice British fiction needs.
People Person is a portrait of a family that is as poignant as it is hilarious. It had me belly-laughing, then picking up my jaw from the floor, then nodding in delighted agreement. Candice is a writer who is not only revealing modern Britain with each of her novels; she is defining it. Cyril Pennington is a character for the ages, but this story truly belongs to the children he never managed to parent. I loved it.
I loved People Person. Candice is so gifted at pulling you in as a writer. The storyline is hugely arresting and I was gripped immediately. Candice is remarkably perceptive in the way she writes people; her characters that are so well drawn, and so believable. When I wasn't reading People Person I was thinking about it and I had to finish it at the earliest opportunity.
People Person is more than just the title of this phenomenal second novel. It's a statement of intent. It's a declaration that when Candice Carty-Williams writes she captures the hearts and minds of readers everywhere.
The Pennington's are a large, messy family and I got to know each member intimately. This is an expertly crafted novel about family secrets that kept me on my toes from start to finish.
A dark comedy full of zinging dialogue and all the consolations and complications of family. A treat.
As warm and infectious, as familiar and true as Queenie. A funny and touching study of sibling relationships.
It's a funny, heartwarming story of inheritance, kinship and influencer culture, told through one dysfunctional south London family, and as with Queenie, a maddening but loveable protagonist. Candice puts in print the word on the street; her eye is on a thriving Afro-Caribbean social and lyrical tradition.
People Person is a fresh blend of brilliant wit, delicious drama, and all the ways family ties can be strained and strengthened. I fell head over heels for the Penningtons, quirks, flaws, and all.
People Person makes explicit the extremity of inheritance. It's a funny, vibrant exploration of the failures that happen among family and it asks difficult questions about healing and what we owe blood.
Carty-Williams has written another big-hearted blockbuster that will make her many fans smile and ache. She paints a vivid picture of the pressures on young people in modern Britain and a poignant one of how a vulnerable outsider can, with the right network, find a sense of belonging and self-acceptance.
Where Candice reigns is in writing humorous speech... poignant.
Funny, tender, poignant...everything you'd expect from Carty-Williams
Delivering a great second novel after a stellar debut is a big ask, but Queenie author Carty-Williams has done just that.
Carty-Williams's prose is snappy and propulsive, full of busy, telegenic set-pieces

Notă biografică

Candice Carty-Williams is a journalist, screenwriter, and author of the Sunday Times bestselling Queenie, a book described as 'vital', 'disarmingly honest' and 'boldly political'. In 2016, Candice created and launched the Guardian and 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize, the first inclusive initiative of its kind in book publishing. She can be found on Twitter and Instagram at @CandiceC_W.