'Like Angela Carter, she is relentlessly inventive' Sunday Times'Entrancing and antic and sensual as a dream' GuardianThe second novel by the author of The Lonely Hearts HotelLonglisted for the Baileys Prize 2015At birth, Nouschka forms a bond with her twin that can never be broken.At six, she's the child star daughter of Quebec's most famous musician.At sixteen, she's a high-school dropout kicking up with her beloved brother.At nineteen, she's the Beauty Queen of Boulevard Saint-Laurent.At twenty, she's back in night school. And falling for an ex-convict. And it's all being filmed by a documentary crew.
Les mer
Longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Women's Fiction Prize - a story of a girl growing up in bohemian Quebec, striving for liberty
An exuberantly written coming-of-age story . . . Flashbulb-bright and memorable . . . Nicolas and Nouschka are the beautiful, frozen, fetishised symbols of separatist Quebec. As they try to wrench themselves into being, their story is as entrancing and antic and sensual as a dream
Les mer
'An exuberantly written coming-of-age story . . . Flashbulb-bright and memorable . . . Nicolasand Nouschka are the beautiful, frozen, fetishised symbols of separatist Quebec. As they try towrench themselves into being, their story is as entrancing and antic and sensual as a dream' - Guardian'Delightfully bizarre . . .The author stuns with the vivid descriptions and metaphors that arestudded throughout the book' - Kirkus'O'Neill's voice is singular, brave, magical, and bursting with stark beauty' - Lisa Moore, author of February
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781784290160
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
riverrun
Vekt
280 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
30 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
416

Forfatter

Biographical note

Heather O'Neill is a novelist, poet, short-story writer, screenwriter, and essayist. Lullabies for Little Criminals, her debut novel, was published in 2007 to international critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her second novel, The Girl who was Saturday Night, was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Fiction Prize, and shortlisted for the Giller Prize, as was her collection of short stories, Daydreams of Angels. Her third novel, The Lonely Hearts Hotel was longlisted for the Baileys prize. Born and raised in Montreal, O'Neill lives there today with her daughter.