The Children's Bach: The perfect jewel of a family novel from the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize: W&N Essentials
Autor Helen Garneren Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 mar 2024
'A slim, deeply humane work that tingles with life' THE TIMES
'One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century' MERVE EMRE
Athena and Dexter Fox are content. They love each other. They are friends.
They live with their two young sons in a sparsely furnished house near the Merri Creek: its walls cracking, its floors sloping and its doors hanging loosely in their frames. There is a piano in their kitchen.
But then, Dexter runs into Elizabeth, an old friend from his university days. She brings into his world her loose-living musician boyfriend, Philip, and her seventeen-year-old sister, Vicki.
And all at once, the bonds that hold the Fox family together begin to fray.
Since its first publication in 1984, The Children's Bach has been hailed as one of only four perfect short novels in the English language, one of the greatest family novels ever written and Garner's masterpiece.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781399606820
ISBN-10: 1399606824
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
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Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1399606824
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția W&N
Seria W&N Essentials
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
[A] spare, subtle, technically sophisticated novella about a cluster of family and friends in suburban Melbourne... Garner, one of Australia's most admired writers, is a master anatomist of ordinary lives across fiction and non-fiction... which refuses to be constrained by the conventions of literary form... a kind of choral consciousness in which one character's perspective slips into another's to create a complex story about love and sex that vibrates with life.
Brooding, sensual, smartly-written... This is one of Garner's greatest talents: her ability to portray life on the page as it's really lived, chaotic, scrappy, sometimes wonderful and oftentimes horrible.
The perfect example of a novel that omits, but provides enough rich detail to make the reader's work pay off... A tour de force of control and variety.
Whichever form she's inhabiting, Garner is great company: perceptive, unsparing of others yet also self-questioning. Her books contain details that radiate long after you finish reading them.
Helen Garner portrays her characters with a clear eye for their dreams, their insecurities and their deep humanity in this intimate and engaging short novel, which was first published in 1984.
A slim, deeply humane work that tingles with life.
Australian novelist Helen Garner, writer of wonderful, pitilessly sharp-eyed domestic dramas, deserves to be better known, and this reissue of her 1984 novel, with an introduction by David Nicholls, is a corker... Garner writes delicious sentences and is crystal clear that life is a messy business.
One of the most significant Australian novels of the last fifty years... It combines omniscience with dirty-realist minimalism - a unique tenor lying somewhere between the styles of George Eliot and Raymond Carver - darting from one short episode to the next without exposition or anything but the most efficient kind of scene-setting.
This book is incredible. It's very short, but also intricate. It's strange and beautiful and constantly surprising. There's nothing else quite like it.
Every summer I like to read at least one family saga and this year I have married this impulse with the ongoing Helen Garner beat. The Children's Bach takes a practically cubist approach to the family saga - characters are winnowed down to gestures, a poorly-timed frown, the parting of their hair. The interpretative leaps a reader is forced to take are immensely satisfying and the process fosters a sense of conspiracy with Garner. The book is excellent company - you should read it
Brooding, sensual, smartly-written... This is one of Garner's greatest talents: her ability to portray life on the page as it's really lived, chaotic, scrappy, sometimes wonderful and oftentimes horrible.
The perfect example of a novel that omits, but provides enough rich detail to make the reader's work pay off... A tour de force of control and variety.
Whichever form she's inhabiting, Garner is great company: perceptive, unsparing of others yet also self-questioning. Her books contain details that radiate long after you finish reading them.
Helen Garner portrays her characters with a clear eye for their dreams, their insecurities and their deep humanity in this intimate and engaging short novel, which was first published in 1984.
A slim, deeply humane work that tingles with life.
Australian novelist Helen Garner, writer of wonderful, pitilessly sharp-eyed domestic dramas, deserves to be better known, and this reissue of her 1984 novel, with an introduction by David Nicholls, is a corker... Garner writes delicious sentences and is crystal clear that life is a messy business.
One of the most significant Australian novels of the last fifty years... It combines omniscience with dirty-realist minimalism - a unique tenor lying somewhere between the styles of George Eliot and Raymond Carver - darting from one short episode to the next without exposition or anything but the most efficient kind of scene-setting.
This book is incredible. It's very short, but also intricate. It's strange and beautiful and constantly surprising. There's nothing else quite like it.
Every summer I like to read at least one family saga and this year I have married this impulse with the ongoing Helen Garner beat. The Children's Bach takes a practically cubist approach to the family saga - characters are winnowed down to gestures, a poorly-timed frown, the parting of their hair. The interpretative leaps a reader is forced to take are immensely satisfying and the process fosters a sense of conspiracy with Garner. The book is excellent company - you should read it