Cleaver

ISBN-13: 9780099481393 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str.

Tim Parks

Opis

Overweight and overwrought, Howard Cleaver, London's successful journalist, abruptly abandons home, partner, mistresses and above all television, the instrument that brought him identity and power. Humiliated by his inability to understand the Tyrolese peasants, he discovers that there is nowhere so noisy and so dangerous as the solitary mind.

Recenzje

Scintillating and subtly nuanced narrative. The secret of its success? Masterful prose, just free-form enough to imitate the whirligig of thought. Parks deserves to take a bow Alastair Sooke New Statesman

O autorze

Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. He lives in Milan.

Parks is the acclaimed author of novels, non-fiction and essays, including Europa, A Season with Verona, Teach Us to Sit Still, Italian Ways and Italian Life. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and has won many awards for both his work in English and his translations from the Italian, which include works by Alberto Moravia, Italo Calvino, Roberto Calasso, Antonio Tabucchi and Niccolò Machiavelli.