Paul Murray

The Mark and the Void

From the author of The Bee Sting

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Produktbeschreibung

While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hamish Hamilton / Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780241953860
• ISBN-10: 0241953863
• Artikelnr.: 43688056

Autorenporträt

Paul Murray was born in Dublin in 1975 and is the author of An Evening of Long Goodbyes, Skippy Dies, The Mark and the Void and The Bee Sting. An Evening of Long Goodbyes was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and nominated for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Skippy Dies was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and longlisted for the Booker Prize. The Mark and the Void won the Everyman Wodehouse Prize. The Bee Sting won the Nero Book of the Year Award and the An Post Irish Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Writers' Prize for Fiction and the Kirkus Prize for Fiction. Paul Murray lives in Dublin.

Rezensionen

This novel's arrival deserves a trumpeting fanfare... curiously brilliant, intricately entertaining... banker plus struggling novelist equals page turner Sunday Independent