What You Will （原版外文书）
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作者Katherine Bucknell (作者)
出版社HarperPerennial
ISBN9780007225118
出版时间2008-01
装帧平装
开本32开
页数339页
货号725
上书时间2012-07-02
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商家编号；725
作者；Katherine Bucknell (作者)
出版社: HarperPerennial (2008年1月7日)
平装: 339页
语种： 英语
ISBN: 0007225113
条形码: 9780007225118
商品尺寸: 13 x 2.1 x 19.7 cm
商品重量: 236 g
An intimate portrait of London intellectual life, the breakdown of a marriage and the friendship between two women, 'What You Will' draws the reader into a spellbinding world of beauty and tension. Gwen, an American painter, lives in London with her English husband, Lawrence, an Oxford don. When Gwen's friend Hilary arrives from New York bruised by a broken engagement, a lost job and an unsuitable love affair, Gwen is determined to find her someone to marry. But will he be another Oxford intellectual, a member of London's bohemia, or a professional from the scandal-ridden New York museum world? But with Gwen's arrival the bonds of friendship, love, and marriage are severely tested. Pressure builds in the household, affecting Gwen and Lawrence's small son as he struggles to engage with the sophistication and savagery around him. Tackling deep and unsetttling questions -- Are we slaves to our impulses or to one another? Is it possible to have both love and freedom? Can the artist or the intellectual illuminate such questions?, 'What You Will' is a subtly wrought, multi-layered, and hypnotically suspenseful tale about how we handle our most intimate relationships.
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Praise for 'What You Will': 'Bucknell takes her time in order to immerse us in her characters' lives and thoughts. This is the book's chief strength and source of pleasure: its luxuriant, almost sensuous appreciation of the intellect. You don't get too many books like that these days; we're almost in Iris Murdoch or Saul Bellow territory here. There is a succession of quite delicious twists which show that Bucknell isn't afraid of being a good old--fashioned entertainer as well as a thoughtful one.' 'Bucknell's erudite prose relies on a close attention to her characters' thoughts' The Observer '"What You Will" contains some beautifully realised passages.' Observer 'A dense, layered portrait of three people's interlocking relations.' Sylvia Brownrigg, TLS 'A playfully serious novel with thoughts and ideas exploding like a storm of confetti.' Sarah Dunant, Saturday Guardian Praise for 'Canarino': 'A remarkably vigorous and subtle first novel: it is written with commanding authority and is impressively accomplished. The plotting is bold and alluring. The characters are vividly realised, forensically examined!beautifully observed. The writing throughout is spare and punctilious.' Independent 'A memorable debut.' Observer 'An artistic triumph.' Sunday Telegraph 'An impressively structured novel.' Spectator 'A sharp, pacily written examination of a marriage in slow motion.' Time Out 'Superbly draws a secure, unquestioned world and its subsequent downfall. There is much to admire in the writing.' Times Literary Supplement 'Divorce, money, sexy men and classy prose. Chick lit for clever girls.' Style Magazine, Sunday Times
作者简介
Katherine Bucknell was born in Saigon and grew up in Washington, D.C. She is a literary scholar and the editor of 'Juvenilia: Poems 1922-1928' by W.H. Auden and of 'Diaries Volume One, 1939-1960' and 'Lost Years: A Memoir 1945-1951' both by Christopher Isherwood. Her novels are 'Canarino', 'Leninsky Prospekt', and 'What You Will'. She lives in London with her husband and their three children.
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