Charles Lambert

Prodigal: Shortlisted for the Polari Prize 2019 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

An innovative family drama exploring the nature of trust, death, and the things we do in the name of love.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gallic Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781910709504
• Artikelnr.: 55152129

Autorenporträt

The book was triggered by the death of my mother and the year I spent with her before she died. I wanted to look at what it meant to lose a parent, and to see the effect it might have on the surviving family members. This is with hindsight. At the time I think that what I wanted most was to exorcise the period as rapidly and completely as possible by making something from it that was utterly distinct from the direct experience of living with death. On a more conscious level, I also wanted to look at what I would call the myth of romantic love, exemplified by the quote from DH Lawrence that provides the epigraph (And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose, and it's always daisy time), and at the varieties of non-romantic love - both within and outside the family - that actually shape our lives. So it's a novel about love and death.

Rezensionen

SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2019

Praise for Charles Lambert:

'Charles Lambert could one day attain classic status' Maggie Gee

'Charles Lambert is a seriously good writer' Dame Beryl Bainbridge

'Charming, elegant and deeply poignant' TLS

Praise for The Children's Home:

'A beautiful and uncanny novel by a writer who never ceases to surprise' Jenny Offill, author of Weather

'Expertly crafted' Owen King, author of Double Feature

'More delicate than Dickens and stranger than Snicket ... Sometimes heart-stopping, sometimes heart-warming, it is a provocative tale, ripe with intrigue. I loved every weird moment of it' Nuala O'Connor, author of Miss Emily

'This disquieting novel is surely one of the year's most bizarre stories... Mr. Lambert's subtle prose enhances the novel's creepiness, as does his refusal to fully resolve or explain its many mysteries' New York Times

'Beautifully written and crafted, and more compelling than many thrillers' Daily Mail

'Compulsively readable, a one-of-a-kind literary horror story' Kirkus Reviews, STARRED review

'This genre-bending debut is by turns dread-inducing and heartwarming, a masterful exploration of whether innocence can truly sprout from ignorance....a magical, mesmerizing tale about the courage it takes to confront the unknown' Booklist, STARRED review

'Mesmerizing....The folkloric undertone and stylish prose, which is replete with gruesome and wondrous images, keep the reader turning the pages' Publishers Weekly

'This genre-bending horror story is sure to haunt you in all the best ways' Bustle 'Best Books of the Month'

'Charles Lambert's novel is entirely original ... highly compelling and invigorating writing' Lonesome Reader

'Charles Lambert has crafted an exquisitely strange and deliciously dark offering ... the narrative itself will haunt his readers well beyond the margins of its pages' High Voltage Magazine

'A haunting Gothic in the vein of Shirley Jackson, steeped with the mystery and imagination of Neil Gaiman's fairy tales. Lambert's prose is beautiful and his tale is mesmerizing' Cemetery Dance Online

'The Children's Home is the best kind of ghost story - one that scares, one that surprises ... and one that you simply can't stop reading' Maine Edge

'... definitely recommend this if you're in the mood for something a little creepy' Bored to Death Book Club

'The Children's Home may well be the most surprising, thought provoking and also baffling book I've ever read' Bailieborough Library Reading Group

'Lambert is a brilliant writer, and his absorbing new novel, The Children's Home, is the best literary fiction I have read in some time' Seattle Book Mama

'A powerful construction of creeping dread which skilfully keeps the reader off-balance at every turn' The Star