<p>‘Lewis’s imagery is startling, rich and strange’<br />Time Out</p>
<p>‘Lewis starts with wonder and insistently works at it to produce a delicious intensity that is full of the transforming passion and unreality of being in the world.’<br />New Statesman</p>
<p>‘Jim Lewis is an accomplished and erudite writer who wears these qualities lightly, making sure they dazzle and amuse rather than bewilder and confuse. His America is voluptuous and surreal’<br />Erica Wagner, The Times</p>
<p>‘Why the Tree Loves the Axe has the makings of a masterpiece.’<br />Dale Peck</p>
<p>‘Comes on like a speedball, a euphoric rush of language and image. This is the real thing. This is real.’<br />Larry Clark, director of Kids</p>

The brilliant second novel by a new US literary star. Caroline, 27, walks out of a marriage and into an old people’s home where she meets cantankerous, lusty octogenarian Billy, who entrusts a secret to her. She goes from his deathbed to a wedding, where she is seduced by a beautiful man who tells her stories of her ex’s antics back home. Bright, buoyant Bonnie, meanwhile, installs herself as Caroline’s new best friend and accompanies her to a picnic that turns into a riot. When it is over, the world’s altered: for Caroline is no longer herself – she must flee being Caroline. We follow her long flight through trauma, fakery and captivity to redemption. Jim Lewis’s tale of how to measure love and its loss is a swooningly observant and atmospheric tale of rare resonance. Lewis writes about sex, ageing, identity and bereavement with such newness and rightness that his reader is struck dumb.
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The brilliant second novel by a new US literary star.
• Cool, hip, innovative jacket design • American booksellers adore Lewis – the US edition was a featured title at both the big chains, Borders and Barnes & Noble (Discover Great New Writers) • Huge review acclaim in the US, from Vanity Fair via Details to the New York TImes • A handselling bestseller in East Coast bookshops • Sister, Jim Lewis’s debut, was rightly celebrated; but Why the Tree Loves the Axe betters it and brings him briskly to the very front of the American literary stage Competition: Don DeLillo;
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780007292158
Publisert
2008-07-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Flamingo
Vekt
125 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Jim Lewis is the author of two previous books, a novel Sister, and in collaboration with photographer Jack Pierson, a book about Las Vegas, Real Gone.