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Perfect
de Rachel Joyce
- Usado
- Estado
- Bien
- ISBN 10
- 0552779709
- ISBN 13
- 9780552779708
- Librería
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AJALVIR, Madrid, Spain
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Sobre este artículo
Black Swan, 2014. Tapa Blanda. Bien. Texto en inglés. Tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Sin subrayados ni anotaciones. Buen estado de conservación.Summer, 1972: In the claustrophobic heat, eleven-year-old Byron and his friend begin âe~Operation Perfectâe(tm), a hapless mission to rescue Byronâe(tm)s mother from impending crisis. Winter, present day: As frost creeps across the moor, Jim cleans tables in the local café, a solitary figure struggling with OCD. His job is a relief from the rituals that govern his nights. Little would seem to connect them except that two seconds can change everything. And if your world can be shattered in an instant, can time also put it right?
Sinopsis
RACHEL JOYCE is the author of the international beststeller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry , which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, as well as an award-winning writer of more than twenty plays for BBC Radio 4. She started writing after a twenty-year acting career, in which she performed leading roles for the Royal Shakespeare Company and won multiple awards. Rachel lives in Gloucestershire on a farm with her family.
Reseñas
El Nov 16 2014, CloggieDownunder dijo:
“Sometimes it is easier, he thinks, to live out the mistakes we have made than to summon the energy and imagination to repair them”
Perfect is the second novel by bestselling British author, Rachel Joyce. In the heat of the 1972 English summer, Byron Hemmings, an intense and thoughtful eleven-year-old boy, is worried. His best friend (and the smartest boy in school), James Lowe has told him two seconds are to be added to time. He understands it is necessary, but can’t shake a feeling of terror. When those two seconds appear to result in a car accident involving Diana Hemmings’ perfect Jaguar, Byron worries incessantly about the consequences and, despite his best efforts to follow the meticulous plans James makes, his known universe begins to unravel.
Joyce uses two narrators to tell her story: young Byron relates the events of that 1972 summer; Jim, a man in his fifties whose life is governed by rituals, intersperses his narration of his present day life (currently being disrupted by a red-headed cook uttering profanities) with memories of earlier times and how he came to live most of his life in a mental institution. These narratives approach a common point, gradually revealing the summer’s tragic conclusion.
Joyce renders the feel of the seventies summer and the present day winter with great skill. Her descriptive prose is often breathtaking: “The sun was not yet fully risen and, caught in the low weak shaft of light, the dew shone silver over the meadow although the crust of earth beneath was hard and cracked. The ox-eye daisies made white pools on the lower hills while every tree sprang a black leak away from the sun’s light. The air smelt new and green like mint” and “A flock of gulls flew east, rising and falling, as if they might clean the sky with their wings” and “With a clutter of wings a flock of starlings lifts into the air, unravelling and lengthening like black ribbon” are just a few samples.
Her characters are appealing and the reader cannot help having sympathy for their situation: Diana’s feelings of inadequacy, Byron’s need to protect his beloved mother (“Like a splinter in his head, the truth was always there, and even though he tried to avoid it by being careful, sometimes he forgot to be careful and there it was”), Jim’s attempts to be normal (“No one knows how to be normal, Jim. We’re all just trying our best. Sometimes we don’t have to think about it and other times it’s like running after a bus that’s already halfway down the street.”) Byron’s anxiety is palpable and Joyce portrays mental conditions like depression and OCD with both insight and humour.
On more than one occasion, the reader may well be moved to tears. Fans of Joyce’s work will not be disappointed and newcomers will want to seek out her other books. A moving and uplifting read.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 106449
- Título
- Perfect
- Autor
- Rachel Joyce
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa Blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0552779709
- ISBN 13
- 9780552779708
- Editorial
- Black Swan
- Fecha de publicación
- 2014
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