Morvern Callar Tapa blanda - 1997
de Alan Warner
In his shocking debut novel, Scottish author Alan Warner probes the vast internal emptiness of the tripped-out, rave generation. Through the cool, haunting voice of his female narrator, Morvern Callar, he plunges readers into the brutal, intoxicating, hollow depths of one woman's opaque soul.
Descripción de contraportada
Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket in a desolate and beautiful port town in the west of Scotland, wakes one morning in late December to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on the kitchen floor. Morvern's reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What she does next is even more appalling. Moving across a blurred European landscape-from rural poverty and drunken mayhem of the port to the Mediterranean rave scene-we experience everything from Morvern's stark, unflinching perspective.
Morvern is utterly hypnotizing from her very first sentence to her last. She rarely goes anywhere without the Walkman left behind as a Christmas present by her dead boyfriend, and as she narrates this strange story, she takes care to tell the reader exactly what music she is listening to, giving the stunning effect of a sound track running behind her voice. In much the same way that Patrick McCabe managed to tell an incredibly rich and haunting story through the eyes of an emotionally disturbed boy in "The Butcher Boy, Alan Warner probes the vast internal emptiness of a generation by using the cool, haunting voice of a female narrator lost in the profound anomie of the ecstasy generation. Morvern is a brilliant creation, not so much memorable as utterly unforgettable."
Descripción de la solapa
Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket in a desolate and beautiful port town in the west of Scotland, wakes one morning in late December to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on the kitchen floor. Morvern's reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What she does next is even more appalling. Moving across a blurred European landscape-from rural poverty and drunken mayhem of the port to the Mediterranean rave scene-we experience everything from Morvern's stark, unflinching perspective.
Morvern is utterly hypnotizing from her very first sentence to her last. She rarely goes anywhere without the Walkman left behind as a Christmas present by her dead boyfriend, and as she narrates this strange story, she takes care to tell the reader exactly what music she is listening to, giving the stunning effect of a sound track running behind her voice. In much the same way that Patrick McCabe managed to tell an incredibly rich and haunting story through the eyes of an emotionally disturbed boy in "The Butcher Boy, Alan Warner probes the vast internal emptiness of a generation by using the cool, haunting voice of a female narrator lost in the profound anomie of the ecstasy generation. Morvern is a brilliant creation, not so much memorable as utterly unforgettable."
Detalles
- Título Morvern Callar
- Autor Alan Warner
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición First Edition
- Páginas 256
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Anchor Books, New York
- Fecha de publicación 1997-02-17
- ISBN 9780385487412 / 038548741X
- Peso 0.41 libras (0.19 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.07 x 5.23 x 0.57 pulgadas (20.50 x 13.28 x 1.45 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Young women - Fiction
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 96023398
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Booklist, 02/15/1997, Page 1005
- Kirkus Reviews, 01/01/1997, Page 18
- Library Journal, 02/01/1997, Page 109
- New York Times, 05/18/1997, Page 21
- Publishers Weekly, 01/27/1997, Page 76
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