The Misogynist
(Sprache: Englisch)
An acutely observed, funny and moving novel from award-winning writer Piers Paul Read
An acutely observed, funny and moving novel from award-winning writer Piers Paul Read
An acutely observed, funny and moving novel from award-winning writer Piers Paul Read
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An acutely observed, funny and moving novel from award-winning writer Piers Paul Read
An acutely observed, funny and moving novel from award-winning writer Piers Paul Read
An acutely observed, funny and moving novel from award-winning writer Piers Paul Read
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Jomier broods. He broods about the present. He broods about the past. He types his gloomy thoughts onto his computer screen - a digital journal. When he has nothing more to say about the present, he returns to the past, copying entries from old notebooks onto his computer.Jomier has reached the age of retirement. His children have grown up. He lives alone in London, embittered and humiliated after his wife, Tilly, had an affair and left him for Max, an uninhibited international banker. Years later he still mourns the death of his marriage, often trying to pinpoint when, and why, it all went wrong. With little now left to fill his time other than formulaic middle-class dinner parties, Jomier seeks refuge in his journals, recalling those years when he had expectations and when he was still loved by his wife.
Then Jomier falls for Judith and life starts to improve as, cautiously, they start an affair. But old habits die hard and patterns repeat themselves. It is only when Jomier's daughter falls ill with a rare blood disorder that Jomier finally begins to reassess his feelings towards those he loves and his ability to forgive.
Darkly humorous, ruthlessly satirical and at times surprisingly moving, The Misogynist is a perceptive exploration of the ways in which we can unintentionally let past disappointments affect our present, and how difficult it can be to move forward.
Autoren-Porträt von Piers Paul Read
Read, Piers PaulPiers Paul Read is best known for his book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, which documented the story of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 and was adapted into a film in 1993. He has won a number of prizes for his fiction, including the Hawthornden Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Piers Paul Read
- 2010, 272 Seiten, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 1408805650
- ISBN-13: 9781408805657
Sprache:
Englisch
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