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Spectacles de Sue Perkins

Spectacles

Autor Sue Perkins
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 oct 2015

Imaginați-vă o casă ticsită până la refuz cu fiecare bilet de autobuz, felicitare și raport școlar adunat de o mamă protectoare timp de decenii, doar pentru ca întreaga arhivă să dispară într-un „incident” de reciclare chiar în momentul în care fiica decide să-și scrie memoriile. Aceasta este premisa tragicomică din Spectacles, volumul prin care Sue Perkins ne invită să privim dincolo de ramele ochelarilor care au devenit marca sa înregistrată. Subliniem că această lucrare nu este doar o colecție de anecdote despre celebritate, ci o cartografiere onestă a drumului de la un copil care presa kilograme de flori maro la prezentatoarea iubită din The Great British Bake Off.

Reținem dualitatea fascinantă pe care critica britanică a punctat-o imediat: există o Sue Perkins a ecranului, exuberantă și gata de gafe, și o alta, reflexivă, care resimte profund pierderile și schimbările. În aceeași familie cu Curious de Rebecca Front, acest volum adaugă o dimensiune de vulnerabilitate brută, refuzând structura clasică a memoriilor de vedetă scrise de fantome literare. Dacă în East of Croydon autoarea ne purta prin peisajele Asiei de Sud, aici călătoria este interioară, explorând teme precum încrederea de sine și identitatea.

Merită menționat că textul păstrează ritmul alert al unui spectacol de stand-up, dar se oprește adesea pentru a lăsa loc emoției pure. Stilul este „strâns și strălucitor”, evitând clișeele motivaționale în favoarea unui umor autoironic subtil. Spectacles reușește să răspundă la întrebări curioase despre Mary Berry sau despre natura universului, rămânând în același timp o scrisoare deschisă despre curajul de a trăi viața „în unghiuri ciudate”.

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ISBN-13: 9781405918565
ISBN-10: 140591856X
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 155 x 234 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricui apreciază umorul britanic inteligent și poveștile de viață autentice. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă intimă asupra lumii televiziunii, dar și o lecție caldă despre cum poți transforma pierderea materială a amintirilor într-o narațiune personală plină de haz. Este o lectură esențială pentru fanii emisiunilor culinare și ai beletristicii autobiografice care nu se teme de vulnerabilitate.

Despre autor

Sue Perkins este o figură centrală a divertismentului britanic, cunoscută ca scriitoare, prezentatoare și comediană. A devenit celebră ca jumătate a duo-ului comic Mel & Sue și a consolidat simpatia publicului prin moderarea fenomenului global The Great British Bake Off. Opera sa literară include jurnale de călătorie precum East of Croydon și lucrări de ficțiune, demonstrând o versatilitate rară între umorul observațional și documentarul de televiziune realizat pentru BBC.

Notă biografică

Sue Perkins is perhaps best known for being one quarter of double act Mel and Sue, where she plays the part of Mel. Together, the pair have bounced, shouted and gurned their way through countless hours of television, most memorably Light Lunch and its later counterpart, the imaginatively titled Late Lunch.
Over the years, Sue has worked on a wide range of solo projects, including documentaries on art, popular fiction and history. In 2008 she appeared on the BBC show Maestro, culminating in her conducting at the Last Night of the Proms. She has also collaborated with food-critic Giles Coren on the Supersizers series, where the duo power-ate their way through five centuries of lungs, livers and testicles whilst half-cut on sherry.
In the last couple of years, Sue has travelled extensively throughout Asia, driving the Ho Chi Minh Trail, exploring the length of the Mekong River and getting felt up by a Cambodian hermit.
She is a regular contributor to Have I Got News For You, Just a Minute, QI and The News Quiz and has been crowned, officially, the World's Greatest Liar, in a hard-fought contest in Cumbria.
Oh, and apparently she does some cake show on BBC1.

Recenzii

Drama, tears and laughs - Spectacles has got it all. A brilliant, touching memoir suffused with love, it reminds you that life is best lived at wonky angles. I ADORED it
Very funny . . . It seems there are two Sue Perkins: the TV one, who gabbles and pratfalls, and the sensitive one who aches. The first of course, exists to protect the second. They can both write. The first writes comedy, the second tragedy; in this sense, reading her memoir is very like meeting her
It's a proper book . . . so well written. Tight & bright & full of inspiration
Utterly wonderful. It's very, very funny and poignant and it's very Sue Perkins and that's the bliss of it
Relentlessly cheering, Spectacles is as charming and funny as Perkins herself. Like going for a long, slightly drunken lunch with your naughtiest friend
Brilliantly written... fearlessly honest and full of heart, it will also make you laugh like a gibbon
I absolutely loved it . . . whip smart and very funny
Life, love and loss - it's all here ... Warm, crisp and beautifully layered - like its author,Spectacles is a complete delight
[A] deftly written and belly-laugh funny autobiography . . . Though she never suggests she might be remotely brainy, she clearly is. Her vocabulary makes Will Self's seem lacking, her writing is full of discreetly clever allusions . . . If she wants her readers to like her, she certainly achieved it with this reviewer who laughed and cried and secretly wants her as a best friend
Sue's memoir will leave you feeling like you've made a new best friend. Introducing us to a cast of friends, family and love interests, and not forgetting a psychopathic nun, Sue picks apart life in a refreshingly honest, warm and downright hilarious way... Spectacles firmly cements her as an exciting writer of the future
This smart and funny story is far from the photo-heavy, ghost-written volumes that it will compete with . . . Perkins is such a good writer . . . incapable of writing a boring sentence

Descriere scurtă

Spectacles is the hilarious, creative and incredibly moving memoir from much loved comedian, writer and presenter Sue Perkins.

When I began writing this book, I went home to see if my mum had kept some of my stuff. What I found was that she hadn't kept some of it. She had kept all of it - every bus ticket, postcard, school report - from the moment I was born to the moment I finally had the confidence to turn round and say 'Why is our house full of this shit?'
Sadly, a recycling 'incident' destroyed the bulk of this archive. This has meant two things: firstly, Dear Reader, you will never get to see countless drawings of wizards, read a poem about corn on the cob, or marvel at the kilos of brown flowers I so lovingly pressed as a child. Secondly, it's left me with no choice but to actually write this thing myself.
This, my first ever book, will answer questions such as 'Is Mary Berry real?', 'Is it true you wear a surgical truss?' and 'Is a non-spherically symmetric gravitational pull from outside the observable universe responsible for some of the observed motion of large objects such as galactic clusters in the universe?'
Most of this book is true. I have, of course, amplified my more positive characteristics in an effort to make you like me.
Thank you for reading.
Praise for Spectacles
'Drama, tears and laughs - Spectacles has got it all. A brilliant, touching memoir suffused with love, it reminds you that life is best lived at wonky angles. I ADORED it' Jessie Burton, bestselling author of The Miniaturist
'Very funny . . . It seems there are two Sue Perkins: the TV one, who gabbles and pratfalls, and the sensitive one who aches. The first of course, exists to protect the second. They can both write. The first writes comedy, the second tragedy; in this sense, reading her memoir is very like meeting her'
Sunday Times

'It's a proper book . . . so well written. Tight & bright & full of inspiration'
Chris Evans, Radio 2