Us: The Booker Prize-longlisted novel from the author of ONE DAY and YOU ARE HERE
Autor David Nichollsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 mai 2015
După succesul fenomenal al romanului One Day, David Nicholls revine cu o explorare profund umană a fragilității legăturilor de familie în Us. Dacă în lucrările sale anterioare, precum The Understudy sau Sweet Sorrow, autorul se concentra pe efervescența începuturilor sau pe umorul situațional al eșecului profesional, aici descoperim o maturitate narativă aplicată declinului domestic. Considerăm că forța acestui roman rezidă în vocea protagonistului, Douglas Petersen, a cărui rigoare științifică se lovește de imprevizibilul emoțional al unei soții care dorește divorțul și al unui fiu care îi este străin. Stilul are ceva din proza lui William Nicholson în Adventures in Modern Marriage, fără să fie o imitație — David Nicholls păstrează o latură mult mai vulnerabilă și un optimism discret, transformând un „Grand Tour” european într-o odisee a regretelor și a speranței. Ritmul lecturii este dictat de alternanța dintre peisajele culturale ale Europei și amintirile care au construit edificiul șubred al familiei Petersen. Spre deosebire de A Modern Family de Helga Flatland, unde accentul cade pe perspectiva copiilor adulți în fața separării părinților, Us ne așază direct în mintea soțului care refuză să capituleze, oferind o meditație dulce-amăruie despre ce înseamnă să rămâi împreună atunci când motivele par să se fi epuizat.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780340897010
ISBN-10: 0340897015
Pagini: 448
Ilustrații: Maps and Line Drawings
Dimensiuni: 131 x 197 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Hodder & Stoughton
Colecția Sceptre
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0340897015
Pagini: 448
Ilustrații: Maps and Line Drawings
Dimensiuni: 131 x 197 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Hodder & Stoughton
Colecția Sceptre
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Despre autor
David Nicholls (născut în 1966) este un renumit romancier și scenarist britanic, cunoscut la nivel mondial pentru abilitatea sa de a îmbina comedia cu tragismul cotidian. După o carieră inițială în actorie, s-a remarcat ca scriitor cu volume precum „Starter for Ten” și „One Day”, acesta din urmă devenind un succes internațional adaptat atât pentru cinema, cât și pentru televiziune. În Us, Nicholls își demonstrează măiestria de scenarist prin dialoguri vii și o structură narativă care i-a adus nominalizarea pe lista lungă a Man Booker Prize, confirmându-i statutul de observator fin al condiției umane contemporane.
Recenzii
Those who loved Nicholls's last novel, One Day, will not be disappointed. Us has many of the same qualities, including an almost magical readability. Though it is an ambitious novel, intricately patterned, which tackles complex and subtle themes, it has the furious pace of a thriller . . . I was having to ration myself for fear of coming to the end too soon
I loved this book. Funny, sad, tender: for anyone who wants to know what happens after the Happy Ever After
A literary and anthropological tour de force . . . astute and packed with brilliant observations, about life, art, culture and the infinite possibilities for human disappointment. I honestly can't imagine loving a novel much more
Us is a work of Cheever-esque perfection that absolutely captures the exquisite horror of not being able to do right for wrong
A perfect book
Nicholls, it seems, was born to write about love, in all its sweetness and bitterness . . . thoughtful, funny, authentic . . . Us begins as a sweet read, but evolves into an examination of love's complexities - the battle between the heart and the brain . . . The kind of book that reminds us what it means to be alive
Nicholls writes with such tender precision about love, this time about a type of relationship often neglected as unsexy - the long-married couple . . . wry, plaintive but ever hopeful
Very funny, wise and bittersweet
As he proved in One Day, Nicholls is brilliant at picking apart modern life with all its hopes, disillusionments and regrets, and marrying it to a gently heartbreaking narrative
He doesn't just have a sharp eye for a story, his characters also have real depth and his books are a delicate balance between warmth and edge. No-one ever gets too easy a ride. Us . . . is no exception
Even better than One Day
A compulsively readable, formally inventive, extremely funny yet achingly melancholy love story
Nicholls has raised his game . . . the clear writing often dazzles with truth . . . a sad, funny, soulful joy of a book
I read it through tears in maybe two sittings . . . at the heart of the book is one man's plight to just get things right. And whoever you are, however logical, or practical with your emotions, most of us just want to get things right when it comes to the people we love
An emotive romantic comedy, ingeniously structured
Us is a quiet joy, written with an undemonstrative simplicity that is hard to achieve
Wonderful. A novel that manages to be both truly hilarious and deeply affecting. I loved it
A wrenching examination of a journey through Europe that goes terribly wrong and a consideration of what it means to be a parent today
It's the perfect follow-up to One Day because it takes romance to a middle-aged place. It's funny and sweet - a lovely, lovely book
Few authors do messed-up relationships better than Nicholls
Bittersweet, beautifully rendered
I enjoyed Us immensely. David has a sublime talent for illuminating the murky causeway that most of us have to navigate between darkness and light, happiness and sadness; the place where fatigue is, and restlessness, where love is tested and strained and sometimes broken
Beautiful, funny and brilliant
Nicholls has captured, with rare accuracy, the hopes, fears, compromises and silly jokes that make up our lives. The title says it all: he really is writing about Us
Never has a book about the end of a love affair been so heartrendingly romantic and bittersweet. Rich in pathos, humour and steeped in the wisdom of maturity
Us is an entertaining and clever crossover read . . . one of the best portrayals of the complexities of a long-term relationship I've seen in a contemporary novel
Nicholls is a delightfully funny writer . . . Us evolves into a poignant consideration of how a marriage ages, how parents mess up and what survives despite all those challenges
Nicholls is a master of the braided narrative, weaving the past and present to create an intricate whole, one that is at times deceptively light and unexpectedly devastating . . . this is a funny and moving novel perfect for a long journey
His organisation of the story is impeccable . . . The narrative neatly weaves present and past with a perfect rhythmic sense of when to leave or revisit a particular strand. The dialogue is always bouncy . . . acute and astute about the dynamics of relationships
Nicholls's superior brand of romantic comedy, shot through with dark shards of truth, gets under the skin
Nicholls's ability to create and then subvert the traditional plot for a comedy is the secret of his success. It makes us confront the gap between what we expect from storytelling and what happens in real life . . . it is this frank exploration of some of the unromantic realities of marriage and growing old that makes this book moving and thought-provoking
A spectacularly well observed, funny and often heartbreaking account of the difficulties of marriage and parenting
Clever and likeable
It's funny, moving and, of course, wonderfully written
A great combination of laughs and heart
A happier, lighter, more well-adjusted version of Gone Girl . . . For all of their burdens and battles, Douglas and Connie have moments of real joy in their marriage and while it doesn't always seem like a pleasure, reading about it sure is
Nicholls again deals with love lost and possibility found, offering an unpredictable ending . . . a poignant story of regret in middle age
Peerless at mixing eye-smarting tragedy with ebullient comedy
Well worth the wait . . . A poignant and acutely observed portrayal of a marriage that's lost its way
A stylish comedy delivered with all of Nicholls's customary aplomb
David Nicholls has such finesse with character that he can create two central figures who are self-deceiving, funny, awful and touching - and who pull you through the narrative like magnets
A great novel . . . Nicholls is a master of nuanced relationships. He's also a pro at delivering a tight, clever structural narrative
Us is the tender, sometimes funny, often heartbreaking journey of two adults experiencing one of those growing-up moments in life that is somehow all the more poignant because they think they're too old to grow up
This perceptive look at the ups and downs of long-term love is the perfect blend of compelling, funny and moving . . . An elegant, grown-up read
I loved this book. Funny, sad, tender: for anyone who wants to know what happens after the Happy Ever After
A literary and anthropological tour de force . . . astute and packed with brilliant observations, about life, art, culture and the infinite possibilities for human disappointment. I honestly can't imagine loving a novel much more
Us is a work of Cheever-esque perfection that absolutely captures the exquisite horror of not being able to do right for wrong
A perfect book
Nicholls, it seems, was born to write about love, in all its sweetness and bitterness . . . thoughtful, funny, authentic . . . Us begins as a sweet read, but evolves into an examination of love's complexities - the battle between the heart and the brain . . . The kind of book that reminds us what it means to be alive
Nicholls writes with such tender precision about love, this time about a type of relationship often neglected as unsexy - the long-married couple . . . wry, plaintive but ever hopeful
Very funny, wise and bittersweet
As he proved in One Day, Nicholls is brilliant at picking apart modern life with all its hopes, disillusionments and regrets, and marrying it to a gently heartbreaking narrative
He doesn't just have a sharp eye for a story, his characters also have real depth and his books are a delicate balance between warmth and edge. No-one ever gets too easy a ride. Us . . . is no exception
Even better than One Day
A compulsively readable, formally inventive, extremely funny yet achingly melancholy love story
Nicholls has raised his game . . . the clear writing often dazzles with truth . . . a sad, funny, soulful joy of a book
I read it through tears in maybe two sittings . . . at the heart of the book is one man's plight to just get things right. And whoever you are, however logical, or practical with your emotions, most of us just want to get things right when it comes to the people we love
An emotive romantic comedy, ingeniously structured
Us is a quiet joy, written with an undemonstrative simplicity that is hard to achieve
Wonderful. A novel that manages to be both truly hilarious and deeply affecting. I loved it
A wrenching examination of a journey through Europe that goes terribly wrong and a consideration of what it means to be a parent today
It's the perfect follow-up to One Day because it takes romance to a middle-aged place. It's funny and sweet - a lovely, lovely book
Few authors do messed-up relationships better than Nicholls
Bittersweet, beautifully rendered
I enjoyed Us immensely. David has a sublime talent for illuminating the murky causeway that most of us have to navigate between darkness and light, happiness and sadness; the place where fatigue is, and restlessness, where love is tested and strained and sometimes broken
Beautiful, funny and brilliant
Nicholls has captured, with rare accuracy, the hopes, fears, compromises and silly jokes that make up our lives. The title says it all: he really is writing about Us
Never has a book about the end of a love affair been so heartrendingly romantic and bittersweet. Rich in pathos, humour and steeped in the wisdom of maturity
Us is an entertaining and clever crossover read . . . one of the best portrayals of the complexities of a long-term relationship I've seen in a contemporary novel
Nicholls is a delightfully funny writer . . . Us evolves into a poignant consideration of how a marriage ages, how parents mess up and what survives despite all those challenges
Nicholls is a master of the braided narrative, weaving the past and present to create an intricate whole, one that is at times deceptively light and unexpectedly devastating . . . this is a funny and moving novel perfect for a long journey
His organisation of the story is impeccable . . . The narrative neatly weaves present and past with a perfect rhythmic sense of when to leave or revisit a particular strand. The dialogue is always bouncy . . . acute and astute about the dynamics of relationships
Nicholls's superior brand of romantic comedy, shot through with dark shards of truth, gets under the skin
Nicholls's ability to create and then subvert the traditional plot for a comedy is the secret of his success. It makes us confront the gap between what we expect from storytelling and what happens in real life . . . it is this frank exploration of some of the unromantic realities of marriage and growing old that makes this book moving and thought-provoking
A spectacularly well observed, funny and often heartbreaking account of the difficulties of marriage and parenting
Clever and likeable
It's funny, moving and, of course, wonderfully written
A great combination of laughs and heart
A happier, lighter, more well-adjusted version of Gone Girl . . . For all of their burdens and battles, Douglas and Connie have moments of real joy in their marriage and while it doesn't always seem like a pleasure, reading about it sure is
Nicholls again deals with love lost and possibility found, offering an unpredictable ending . . . a poignant story of regret in middle age
Peerless at mixing eye-smarting tragedy with ebullient comedy
Well worth the wait . . . A poignant and acutely observed portrayal of a marriage that's lost its way
A stylish comedy delivered with all of Nicholls's customary aplomb
David Nicholls has such finesse with character that he can create two central figures who are self-deceiving, funny, awful and touching - and who pull you through the narrative like magnets
A great novel . . . Nicholls is a master of nuanced relationships. He's also a pro at delivering a tight, clever structural narrative
Us is the tender, sometimes funny, often heartbreaking journey of two adults experiencing one of those growing-up moments in life that is somehow all the more poignant because they think they're too old to grow up
This perceptive look at the ups and downs of long-term love is the perfect blend of compelling, funny and moving . . . An elegant, grown-up read
Descriere
⭐ Now in paperback: David Nicholls's new novel You Are Here ⭐
Us: a brilliant, bittersweet novel about love and family, husbands and wives, parents and children
Longlisted for the Booker Prize
'Perfect'
INDEPENDENT
'I honestly can't imagine loving a novel much more'
SUNDAY TIMES
'I loved this book. Funny, sad, tender: for anyone who wants to know what happens after the Happy Ever After'
JOJO MOYES
Douglas and Connie - scientist and artist, husband and wife - live a quiet and quietly unremarkable life in the suburbs of London. Until, suddenly, after more than twenty years of marriage, Connie decides she wants a divorce.
Heartbroken but determined, Douglas comes up with the perfect plan: he is going to win back the love of his wife and the respect of Albie, their teenage son, by organising the holiday of a lifetime.
The hotels are booked, the tickets bought, the itinerary planned and printed.
What could possibly go wrong?
ONE OF BRITAIN'S MOST ACCLAIMED WRITERS
'One of the most astute chroniclers of England as it is now'
FINANCIAL TIMES
'An uncanny ability to make us laugh out loud, but also care passionately about his characters'
DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Nicholls writes with such tender precision about love'
THE TIMES
'No one else writes novels that are both relatable and revelatory in the way he does'
EVENING STANDARD
'Genuinely brilliant'
NEW STATESMAN
Textul de pe ultima copertă
Douglas Petersen may be mild mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that, against all odds, seduces beautiful Connie into a second date . . . and eventually into marriage. Now, almost three decades after their relationship first blossomed in London, they live more or less happily in the suburbs with their moody seventeen-year-old son, Albie.
Then Connie tells Douglas that she thinks she wants a divorce.
The timing couldn't be worse. Hoping to encourage her son's artistic interests, Connie has planned a monthlong tour of European capitals, a chance to experience the world's greatest works of art as a family, and she can't bring herself to cancel. Douglas is privately convinced that this landmark trip will rekindle the romance in the marriage, and may even help him to bond with Albie.
From the streets of Amsterdam to the famed museums of Paris, from the cafés of Venice to the beaches of Barcelona, Douglas's odyssey brings Europe to vivid life just as he experiences a powerful awakening of his own. Will this summer be his last as a husband, or the moment when he turns his marriage, and maybe even his whole life, around?
Then Connie tells Douglas that she thinks she wants a divorce.
The timing couldn't be worse. Hoping to encourage her son's artistic interests, Connie has planned a monthlong tour of European capitals, a chance to experience the world's greatest works of art as a family, and she can't bring herself to cancel. Douglas is privately convinced that this landmark trip will rekindle the romance in the marriage, and may even help him to bond with Albie.
From the streets of Amsterdam to the famed museums of Paris, from the cafés of Venice to the beaches of Barcelona, Douglas's odyssey brings Europe to vivid life just as he experiences a powerful awakening of his own. Will this summer be his last as a husband, or the moment when he turns his marriage, and maybe even his whole life, around?
Notă biografică
David Nicholls's most recent novel, the New York Times bestseller One Day, has sold more than two million copies and has been translated into thirty-seven languages; the film adaptation starred Jim Sturgess and Anne Hathaway. Nicholls's previous novels include Starter for Ten and The Understudy. He trained as an actor before making the switch to writing and has twice been nominated for BAFTA awards.