A Spot of Bother
(Sprache: Englisch)
At 57, George Hall is settling down to a retirement. Then Katie, his daughter, announces that she is getting remarried, to Ray. Her brother Jamie observes that Ray has 'strangler's hands'. This book features a portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane...
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At 57, George Hall is settling down to a retirement. Then Katie, his daughter, announces that she is getting remarried, to Ray. Her brother Jamie observes that Ray has 'strangler's hands'. This book features a portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely. It also talks about the people who fall apart and come together as a family.
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George Hall doesn't understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely. Some things in life, however, cannot be ignored.At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels, listening to a bit of light jazz. Then Katie, his tempestuous daughter, announces that she is getting remarried, to Ray. Her family is not pleased - as her brother Jamie observes, Ray has strangler's hands. Katie can't decide if she loves Ray, or loves the wonderful way he has with her son Jacob, and her mother Jean is a bit put out by all the planning and arguing the wedding has occasioned, which get in the way of her quite fulfilling late-life affair with one of her husband's former colleagues. And the tidy and pleasant life Jamie has created crumbles when he fails to invite his lover, Tony, to the dreaded nuptials.
Unnoticed in the uproar, George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip, and quietly begins to lose his mind.
The way these damaged people fall apart -and come together - as a family is the true subject of Mark Haddon's disturbing yet very funny portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely.
Autoren-Porträt von Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon, geboren 1963, lebt in Oxford. Er wuchs in Northhampton auf und studierte in Oxford. Anschließend arbeitete er sechs Jahre mit geistig oder körperlich behinderten Menschen zusammen. Er schrieb verschiedene Kinderbücher; für seine Drehbücher wurde er zweimal mit dem BAFTA-Preis ausgezeichnet.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Mark Haddon
- 2007, 336 Seiten, Maße: 11,1 x 17,8 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Vintage, London
- ISBN-10: 0099507439
- ISBN-13: 9780099507437
Sprache:
Englisch
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"A painful, funny, humane, novel: beautifully written, addictively readable and so confident" (The Times)"Amusing and brisk and charming" (Guardian)
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