Paul Pickering

Elephant

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Produktbeschreibung

In a country house in England a precocious teenage exile from revolutionary Russia sets down his adventures on paper, beginning with his first ball in St Petersburg and how he frees a huge African elephant from a cruel circus.

Produktdetails

• Salt Modern Fiction
• Verlag: Salt / Salt Publishing Limited
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 194mm x 129mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 353g
• ISBN-13: 9781784632250
• ISBN-10: 1784632252
• Artikelnr.: 59366489

Autorenporträt

Paul Pickering is the author of six novels: Wild About Harry, Perfect English, The Blue Gate of Babylon, Charlie Peace, The Leopard's Wife and Over the Rainbow. The Blue Gate of Babylon was a New York Times notable book of the year, who dubbed it 'superior literature'. Often compared to Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh, Pickering was chosen as one of the top ten young British novelists by bookseller WH Smith and has been long-listed for the Booker Prize three times. The novelist J.G. Ballard said Pickering's work is 'truly subversive'. As well as short stories and poetry, he has written several plays, film scripts and columns for The Times and Sunday Times. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.

Rezensionen

What Elephant provides to the reader is a gloriously absorbing story about storytelling, as rich in suspense and vitality as it is in incidents and images that dare you to disbelieve them. An ice-bound Russian lake is filled with the frozen bodies of neatly dressed office girls. A zeppelin appears above Wentworth Woodhouse, equipped with a harnessed undercarriage that can carry a full-grown Indian elephant away from imminent danger.

Miranda Seymour Financial Times