Stuart Murdoch

Broschiertes Buch

Nobody's Empire

'Empathetic, funny and heartwarming.' Buzz Magazine

Beschreibung

It's the early 1990s in Glasgow, and Stephen - music loving romantic - has emerged from a lengthy hospital stay diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, a little-understood disease that has robbed him of any prospects of work, a social life or independent living.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 194mm x 126mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9780571388103
• ISBN-10: 0571388108
• Artikelnr.: 73333888

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"Stuart has done something really special here: Nobody's Empire is a smart and tender depiction of a gestating artist's soul, told with real wit and pathos. It's a portrait of the artist as a young convalescent." - Colin Meloy, singer-songwriter of The Decemberists and author of Wildwood

"Nobody's Empire is as memorable as it is moving [and] is a bright spotlight on a condition left to moulder too long in the dark. It's a public service in print." - The Times (UK)

"You don't have to be an indie-pop fan to appreciate this compassionate, sweet, beautifully written novel. Murdoch proves he's as good a novelist as he is a musician." - Kirkus

Reviews (starred review)

"A tender slice of autofiction...Nobody's Empire is mesmerizing in a low-key way, much like the music of Belle and Sebastian, and it leaves a smile on your face."
- Booklist (starred review)

"Murdoch's first novel is empathetic, funny and heartwarming." - Buzz Magazine

"The frontman of Belle & Sebastian recreates his younger years here in wonderfully limpid prose that looks at music and art and life and gives an insight into his struggles with ME." - The Scottish Herald

"Stuart Murdoch can write. He's made the transition from gifted songwriter to splendid author. 'Nobody's Empire' is a marvelous coming of age, come of wisdom, coming to California novel." - Robert Forster, singer-songwriter of The Go-Betweens and author of Grant & I: Inside and Outside the Go-Betweens

"A young man copes with chronic fatigue syndrome in Belle and Sebastian front man Stuart Murdoch's autobiographical debut novel, written with charming self-deprecation and winning petulance. . . . Nobody's Empire can speak to anyone drawn to slay-the-dragon chronicles." - Shelf Awareness

"Stuart Murdoch's mostly true novel about his chronic illness dazzles with indie charm...By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Nobody's Empire is a romantic world of possibility and youthful yearning." - Minnesota Star Tribune