Stuff (ePub)
A Memoir of Death and Life
(Sprache: Englisch)
One afternoon in the autumn of 2004, in Palermo, Martin Rowson had a dream about his parents¿ house, just a few months after two of them had died. They¿d left the house, where Rowson had grown up in the 1960s and 70s, crammed with tons and tons of stuff,...
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One afternoon in the autumn of 2004, in Palermo, Martin Rowson had a dream about his parents¿ house, just a few months after two of them had died. They¿d left the house, where Rowson had grown up in the 1960s and 70s, crammed with tons and tons of stuff, both physical and emotional, and in Stuff Martin Rowson weaves together dreams, memories, family anecdotes and gossip, jokes, parental advice, history, smells, sounds and sights to recreate their lives, their times and his, and the lives of his other parents, the one who died when he was ten, the one he didn¿t know who died when he was in his thirties, and the last one, who maybe never existed at all.
Travelling between a north London suburb in the 1960s still stuck in the 1950s, his grandmother¿s house in 1960s Blackpool, stuck in the 1920s, via Watford, Moscow, Buenos Aires, Ohio, his school, hospitals, funeral practices, rock music, the colours and smells of his childhood, single parenthood, God, adoption, names and the medical profession, Stuff is part memoir, part reminiscence, but mostly a funny, thought-provoking and ultimately moving meditation on families, life, love, disease, death, grief and memory and the existentialist horrors of clearing out the attic.
Martin Rowson is already a celebrated and award-winning cartoonist. His first novel Snatches was published last year to huge acclaim. Stuff will establish him as one of the most talented writers of his generation.
Travelling between a north London suburb in the 1960s still stuck in the 1950s, his grandmother¿s house in 1960s Blackpool, stuck in the 1920s, via Watford, Moscow, Buenos Aires, Ohio, his school, hospitals, funeral practices, rock music, the colours and smells of his childhood, single parenthood, God, adoption, names and the medical profession, Stuff is part memoir, part reminiscence, but mostly a funny, thought-provoking and ultimately moving meditation on families, life, love, disease, death, grief and memory and the existentialist horrors of clearing out the attic.
Martin Rowson is already a celebrated and award-winning cartoonist. His first novel Snatches was published last year to huge acclaim. Stuff will establish him as one of the most talented writers of his generation.
Autoren-Porträt von Martin Rowson
Martin Rowson
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- Autor: Martin Rowson
- 2010, 336 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Random House UK Ltd
- ISBN-10: 1409059146
- ISBN-13: 9781409059141
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.09.2010
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"Absorbing and vivid.... the best and most touching element of Stuff is that, unlike so many memoirs concerning parents, it emphatically delivers... It is a lively and entertaining book, yet its earnest concern, in the end, is to examine what truly remains of the dead we have loved, and to face up to all the sorting"
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