Libro Morvern Callar (Morvern Callar Cycle) De Alan Warner

portada Morvern Callar (Morvern Callar Cycle)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Anchor

Autor

Alan Warner

Año

1997

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

242

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

ISBN

038548741X

ISBN13

9780385487412

N° edición

Categorías

Ficción literaria

Morvern Callar (Morvern Callar Cycle)

Alan Warner (Autor) · Anchor · Tapa Blanda

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An utterly unforgettable novel that portrays a vast internal emptiness by using the cool, haunting voice of a young woman in Scotland lost in the profound anomie of her generation--from "one of the most talented, original and interesting voices around" (Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting). Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket in a desolate and beautiful port town in the west of Scotland, wakes one morning in late December to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on the kitchen floor. Morvern's reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What she does next is even more appalling. Moving across a blurred European landscape--from rural poverty and drunken mayhem of the port to the Mediterranean rave scene--we experience everything from Morvern's stark, unflinching perspective. Morvern is utterly hypnotizing from her very first sentence to her last. She rarely goes anywhere without the Walkman left behind as a Christmas present by her dead boyfriend, and as she narrates this strange story, she takes care to tell the reader exactly what music she is listening to, giving the stunning effect of a sound track running behind her voice. In much the same way that Patrick McCabe managed to tell an incredibly rich and haunting story through the eyes of an emotionally disturbed boy in The Butcher Boy, Alan Warner's Morvern Caller is a brilliant creation.