The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times
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<p>The assurance and skill with which Xan Brooks tells his tale in <em>The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times</em> makes it difficult to believe that this is a first novel. By turns funny and tragic, awful and lovely, terrifying and warming, it¿s a book told with rare elegance and narrative zest. The post-Great War England the novel depicts is a land of exhausted decay and weird encounters, filled with fake spiritualists, war heroes turned into monsters, and repulsive aristocrats. Its twisted humour and dark satire reminded me above all of Graham Greene, and that is not a comparison one makes lightly. I absolutely loved it.</p>
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Shortlisted for the 2017 Costa First Novel Award Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2018 Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2018 Longlisted for The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction New Faces of Fiction 2017, Observer Observer Fiction to look out for in 2017 The Irish Times What To Look Out for in 2017 from Independent Publishers Jen Campbell's 'Most Anticipated Books of 2017' Jean Bookish Thoughts 'Most Anticipated Releases of 2017' A dark social-realist fairytale, spotlighting the shadowy underside of 1920s England Summer 1923: the modern world. Orphaned Lucy Marsh climbs into the back of an old army truck and is whisked off to the woods north of London ¿ a land haunted by the past, where lost souls and monsters conceal themselves in the trees. In a sunlit clearing she meets the 'funny men', a quartet of disfigured ex-soldiers named after Dorothy's companions in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Here are the loved and the damaged, dark forests and darker histories, and the ever-present risk of discovery and violent retribution. Xan Brooks' stunning debut is heartbreaking, disturbing and redemptive.
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Erschienen: 15.04.2017
Umfang: 400 S., 0.63 MB
Sprache: ENG
ISBN/EAN: 9781784630942
Umbreit-Nr.: 9093889
