Claire Messud

Broschiertes Buch

The Emperor's Children

Beschreibung

In the glittering tradition of Edith Wharton, The Emperor's Children examines life in upper-crust Manhattan, and tells a compelling story of ambition, vanity and tragedy

Autor

Claire Messud

Produktdetails

• Picador Classic
• Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International / Picador
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9781447289418
• ISBN-10: 1447289412
• Artikelnr.: 42186912

Rezensionen

In its scope, style and substance, The Emperor's Children is an attempt to return the novel to its golden age; it is engaged in a conversation with George Eliot, Henry James, Dostoevsky. Its psychological realism is perfect, its characters . . . thrillingly real, alive and utterly convincing in their subtleties of thought and the ticking of their minds.
Messud's prose is a timely and intensely pleasurable reminder of the possibilities of the English language. To use the word clarity about her style - dense, chaste, luminously intelligent - is to return the word to its origins; this is style as illumination, shining a searching yet sympathetic light on the minds and inner worlds of her characters, and as a radiant mode of moral inquiry.
The Times