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Blue Skies

T. C. Boyle

Blue Skies
Blue Skies

Blue Skies

T. C. Boyle

Paperback | Engels
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Omschrijving

A mordant eco-thriller ... Boyle, who lives in California, has drawn zany satire from looming environmental catastrophe in previous works, but there’s no denying that enhanced plausibility adds fresh layers of absurdism and melancholy to his latest novel

A mordant eco-thriller ... Boyle, who lives in California, has drawn zany satire from looming environmental catastrophe in previous works, but there’s no denying that enhanced plausibility adds fresh layers of absurdism and melancholy to his latest novel

Darkly comic ... Could be a very influential book indeed

An accomplished family drama with a climate-crisis setting

Is climate change funny? Yes, in the brilliantly imaginative T. C. Boyle’s hands, in a terrifying way. Blue Skies is both comic and wrenching … A black arrow of unimaginable horror shoots through the novel’s centre and Boyle leads us to contemplate the “inexpressible sadness at the heart of everything” – and a morsel of the world’s inexpressible beauty

Boyle writes with a youthful and sustained energy that parallels the zeal of his dreamers, and that ultimately attenuates their failures

Darkly ironic ... an expert blend of suspense, terror and, occasionally, very black humour

Less a novel about what might be done about the climate crisis and more an accomplished family drama with a climate-crisis setting ... Boyle doesn’t offer his own clear answer. Maybe he doesn’t need to. At this stage of the climate game, it shouldn’t take much prodding to convince us that there’s plenty of work to do if we don’t want our own families to be forced to answer Boyle’s thought problem

Satiric and provocative ... skewering a contemporary environmental standoff modeled on real life events

Always enjoyable, virtually incapable of dullness or slack sentences … His stories reveal truths about modern life while still feeling beautifully invented

You don’t feel cheated, reading Boyle – while the head knows there’s manipulation and artifice, the heart thumps

Boyle has a talent for describing events we may never experience with an arresting matter-of-factness. There is a thrill to this, and to not knowing where he will take us next

Boyle is a writer who chooses a large canvas and fills it to the edges

T. C. Boyle is the New York Times-bestselling author of seventeen previous novels and eleven collections of stories. His work has been translated into twenty-six languages. He is the recipient most recently of the Jonathan Swift Prize, the Mark Twain Voice in American Literature Award and the Henry David Thoreau Award. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California. tcboyle.com

Specificaties

  • Uitgever
    Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Verschenen
    feb. 2024
  • Bladzijden
    384
  • Genre
    Speculatieve fictie
  • Afmetingen
    234 x 153 mm
  • EAN
    9781526659699
  • Paperback
    Paperback
  • Taal
    Engels

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