Edward Carey

Gebundenes Buch

Edith Holler

Beschreibung

"The witty and entrancing story of a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English playhouse--and the mysterious figure who threatens the theater's very survival. The year is 1901. England's beloved queen has died, and her aging son has finally taken the throne. In the eastern city of Norwich, bright and inquisitive young Edith Holler spends her days among the boisterous denizens of the Holler Theatre, warned by her domineering father that the playhouse will literally tumble down if she should ever leave its confines. Fascinated by tales of the city she knows only from afar, she decides to write a play of her own: a stage adaptation of the legend of Mawther Meg, a vicious figure said to have used the blood of countless children to make the local delicacy known as Beetle Spread. But when her father suddenly announces his engagement to a peculiar, imposing woman named Margaret Unthank, heir to the actual Beetle Spread fortune, Edith scrambles to protect her father, the theater, and her play--the one thing that's truly hers--from the newcomer's sinister designs. Teeming with unforgettable characters, and illuminated by the author's trademark fantastical illustrations, Edith Holler is a surprisingly modern fable of one young woman's struggle to escape her family's control--and to reveal inconvenient truths about the way children are used"--

Autor

Edward Carey is a novelist, visual artist, and playwright. His previous novels include The Swallowed Man (a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice), Little, Alva & Irva, and Observatory Mansions, and an acclaimed series for young adults, the Iremonger Trilogy. Born in England, he now teaches at the University of Texas in Austin, where he lives with his wife, Elizabeth McCracken, and their family.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9780593188903
• ISBN-10: 059318890X
• Artikelnr.: 67479406

Rezensionen

'An enjoyably uncategorisable and atmospheric book, a richly dark and idiosyncratic fairytale for grownups.' The Guardian

'There is much to admire in Carey's inventive thespian netherworld and ingenious plotting.' Mail on Sunday

'An extraordinary achievement: funny, troubling, playful, magical and vastly energetic - sometimes all at once. Edith herself is a fierce, strange creature and entirely unforgettable' A. L. Kennedy

'Edward Carey excels in writing - and drawing! - peculiar characters, and the cast he creates for the macabre and fun Edith Holler is no exception' NPR, Best Books of the Year

'A raucous romp . . . A wonderfully strange and quirky tale about the power of

penning and performing tales' Kirkus Reviews

'Carey draws on fairy tales and Shakespeare for a dazzling bildungsroman . . . This affirms the author's standing as a major literary talent' Publishers Weekly, starred review

'A fabulous novel . . . The voice of Edith Holler is distinctive and brilliant' NBC New York

'Singular - a dark delight from beginning to end' Erika Swyler, author of The Book of Speculation

'Edith Holler is that rarest thing, a newly written tale that feels as though it's been discovered behind the stacked stone walls of an abandoned estate. Eldritch, raucous, blistering, beautiful, totally indelible' Maria Dahvana Headley, author of The Mere Wife

'Brilliant and shiver-inducing . . . a delightfully macabre achievement, equal parts Charles Dickens and Sweeney Todd' Helene Wecker, author of The Golem and the Jinni

Praise for THE SWALLOWED MAN

'Profound and delightful . . . a strange and tender parable of two maddening obsessions; parenting and art-making' Max Porter

'A beautiful and dark meditation on fatherhood, mercy, redemption and the alchemy of isolation. Strange, moving and musical, it's a delight' A. L. Kennedy

'Haunting . . . the book, sentence by sentence, offers much in which to luxuriate' Sunday Times

Praise for LITTLE

'Don't miss this eccentric charmer' @MargaretAtwood

'Unmissable' Olga Tokarczuk

'Wonderful' Max Porter

'Absolutely brilliant' Susan Hill

'Delightful, eccentric, heartfelt, surprising, philosophical' Eleanor Catton

'Startlingly original' The Times

'Visceral, vivid and moving' The Guardian

'Guts'n'gore galore: I bloody loved it' The Spectator

'A tale as moving as it is macabre' Mail on Sunday

'One of the most original historical novels of the year . . . Macabre, funny, touching and oddly life-affirming, Little is a remarkable achievement' Sunday Times

'Clever and intriguing' Daily Mail

'Marie's story is fascinating in itself, but Carey's talent makes her journey a thing of wonder' New York Times

'By turns witty, ghoulish, poignant and curiously life-affirming, Little is a historical novel unlike any other' BBC History Magazine

'A delightfully strange portrait of a young orphan honing her eccentric craft amid the tumult of the French Revolution . . . a novel that teems with life' Time