Something to Live For: 'Charming, humorous and life-affirming tale about human kindness' BBC
Autor Richard Roperen Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 iul 2020
Remarcăm în Something to Live For o structură narativă construită pe dualitatea dintre viața publică și cea privată, unde cronologia este punctată de vizitele profesionale ale lui Andrew în locuințele unor străini dispăruți în anonimat. Autorul Richard Roper își plasează protagonistul într-o ipostază neobișnuită: Andrew este un detectiv al singurătății, un funcționar care reconstituie vieți din fragmente de obiecte uitate, în timp ce propria sa existență este o fațadă atent întreținută. Premisa este pe cât de melancolică, pe atât de plină de umor britanic fin, explorând ideea că uneori ne este mai ușor să ne inventăm o familie ideală decât să ne confruntăm cu absența uneia.
Atmosfera cărții amintește de One Good Thing prin modul în care un nou început este forțat de împrejurări neașteptate, însă Something to Live For se diferențiază printr-o profunzime emoțională mai sobră, ancorată în realitatea dură a izolării sociale. Stilul lui Roper este unul al observației atente, unde obiectele mărunte dintr-o cameră goală devin martori ai unei întregi istorii umane.
Fiind primul său roman, această lucrare stabilește temele pe care autorul le va rafina ulterior și în When We Were Young sau This Disaster Loves You: dificultatea de a lăsa trecutul în urmă și curajul fragil necesar pentru a spune adevărul. Experiența lecturii este marcată de un ritm blând, care nu grăbește vindecarea personajului, ci îi permite lui Peggy să intre în viața lui ca un suflu de prospețime și onestitate, forțându-l pe Andrew să decidă dacă merită să riște totul pentru o șansă la o fericire autentică.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1409185613
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția Orion
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Descriere
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'A magnificent read. Tender, funny, compelling' Lucy Foley, bestselling author of The Guest List
'I adored this! It warmed my heart, broke it a little, then put it back together' Beth O'Leary, bestselling author of The Flatshare
'Funny, moving and thought-provoking - I loved this' Clare Mackintosh, bestselling author of After the End
'Funny, fresh and achingly tender. Richard's writing hooked me in from the very first page' Cathy Bramley, bestselling author of A Patchwork Family
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MEET ANDREW.
Everybody likes Andrew. But they don't really know him. They know what he's told them - that he's happily married with two kids. Living the kind of life that's either so boring it's true, or so perfect it's a lie...
ENTER PEGGY.
Peggy arrives in Andrew's life in a burst of kindness and possibility. For the first time in ages, Andrew feels alive again. So now that he has everything to lose, can he risk it all and tell Peggy the truth?
'If you loved Eleanor Oliphant, try this brilliant new read' Fabulous
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See what everyone is saying about this charming, uplifting bestseller - from your favourite authors to other readers!
'A life-affirming novel that simultaneously tweaks your funny-bone and tugs at your heartstrings. Brilliant!' Matt Dunn
'Funny, moving and uplifting...I loved it' Libby Page
'Heart-breaking. Hilarious. Life-affirming' Holly Bourne
'It pulls you in, makes you laugh and breaks your heart' Gill Hornby
'A beautiful, heart-warming laugh out loud story' Dinah Jefferies
'My favourite read this year *****'
'An emotional rollercoaster of a read *****'
'I couldn't put this down *****'
'I haven't laughed so much in a long time *****'
'The end left me smiling *****'
Recenzii
If you loved Eleanor Oliphant, try this brilliant new read... We completely fell in love with this funny, uplifting debut.
I loved this novel with my whole heart.
Endearing and delightful.
This perfect, quirky summer page-turner... a life-affirming debut.
This is a story that gets under your skin - and a must read.
A wonderful debut that's heartbreaking, uplifting and laugh-out-loud funny... an inspiring, life-affirming read.
Something To Live For is a heart-warming, funny yet poignant debut novel. Exploring loneliness and family breakdown, Richard Roper has created a cast of colourful and weirdly wonderful characters. An uplifting and life-affirming read.
Eleanor Oliphant for men
This could almost be the tie-in novel for a Richard Curtis romcom... Something To Live For benefits from the same earnest charm.
Richard Roper's debut is heart-breaking, uplifting, funny and brimming with human kindness.
It's no surprise that TV rights to this funny, tender and all-the-feels book have already been snapped up.
A wonderful debut that's heartbreaking, uplifting and laugh-out-loud funny all at once.
A sweetly poignant debut.
A poignant but uplifting novel that's related with great compassion and humour.
Endearing.
A poignant, superbly funny debut novel about love, loneliness and the many ways life doesn't always go to plan.
Funny, moving and thought-provoking - I loved this.
Tender, funny, compelling - this wonderful book deserves to be huge!
Like everyone else, I completely fell under its spell. It pulls you in, makes you laugh and breaks your heart - in short, does everything that you want a novel to do. Every character is round and real - from dear old Andrew, through the wonderful Peggy - oh, Peggy! - to the anonymous woman in the cloud of perfume who lives downstairs. While it is very much in the David Nicholls' tradition of sympathetic quirk and comedy, it is, at the same time, so fresh and different. I loved the voice, the people, the world..... Who couldn't? What an extraordinary debut.
Just finished Something To Live For with tears running down my cheeks. Heart-breaking. Hilarious. Life-affirming. Some descriptions of loneliness took my breath away. This book deserves to be HUGE.
Warmed my heart, broke it a little, then put it back together
Nick Hornby and David Nicholls' quirky love child would write like Richard Roper. Something to Live For is endearing, funny and life-affirming, with a perfect dose of loneliness and human kindness
Funny, moving and uplifting... I loved it.
Wryly funny and quirkily charming - perfect for fans of A Man Called Ove and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
A definite contender for my book of the year . . . funny, heartbreaking and cleverly observed
A life-affirming novel that simultaneously tweaks your funny-bone and tugs at your heartstrings. Brilliant!
[An] off-beat and winning debut..., [Something To Live For] earns its pathos. Even more to its credit, it gives resiliency and the triumph of the human spirit a good name.
Gentle comedy and these characters' innately kind natures enriches what might have been starkly sad moments... [Roper] admirably tackles a painful subject with goodhearted characters it's easy to root for.
Darkly humorous.
Roper's delightful debut is as funny as it is touching... This story of a neurotic, tenderhearted man struggling to learn how not to be alone is irresistible.
Tragic, sweet, and hopeful... This novel will appeal to fans of Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine.
Quirky and heartfelt... Andrew's past traumas are revealed gradually, and the reasons behind his isolation are heartbreaking and poignant. A moving and funny look at grief, hope, and the power of human connections.
Life-affirming...moments of hilarity while conveying a message about stepping out of comfort zones
Richard Roper has crafted a compelling mystery in this clever and uplifting debut... Something to Live For is a story about the problems we encounter as human beings and the connections that save us.
A beautiful, heart-warming laugh out loud story.
This magnificent debut is a must for your summer reading list - heartbreaking, funny and tender, it has it all!
As hilarious as it is heart-breaking... a truly memorable and quirky read: unusual and sometimes side-splittingly funny.