The Motion of the Body Through Space

Resumen del libro

From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About KevinAllergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled - on her lonesome. But now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with dread, her previously sedentary husband Remington, recently and ignominiously redundant, chooses this precise moment to discover exercise.Which should be good for his health, right? Yet as he joins the cult of fitness that seems increasingly to consume the whole of the Western world, her once-modest husband burgeons into an unbearable narcissist.

Ignoring all his other obligations in the service of extreme sport, he engages a saucy, taunting personal trainer named Bambi, who treats his wife with contempt. When Remington announces his intention to compete in a legendarily gruelling triathlon, MettleMan, Serenata is sure he's going to end up injured or dead - but the stubbornness of an ageing man in Lycra is not to be underestimated.The story of an obsession, of a marriage, of a betrayal: The Motion of the Body Through Space is Lionel Shriver at her hilarious, sharp-eyed, audacious best.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong Lionel Shriver x{0026}lt;/strong (Gastonia, Carolina del Norte, 1957) es periodista y escritora. En 2005, con varias novelas en su haber, recibió el prestigioso Women's Prize for Fiction por x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Tenemos que hablar de Kevinx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , un superventas que la consagró definitivamente en el panorama literario internacional: Pocas veces un libro ha explorado con tal sutileza y complejidad esa tenebrosa sustancia que une a una madre y a su hijo (Véronique Rossignol, x{0026}lt;em Livres Hebdox{0026}lt;/em ). Además de esta, Anagrama ha publicado sus siguientes novelas: x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em El mundo despuésx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em del cumpleañosx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong : Compleja y atrevida, la inteligente meditación de Shriver fascinará a cualquiera que se haya preguntado alguna vez qué habría pasado si hubiera seguido, o ignorado, uno de esos impulsos que cambian la vida (Francine Prose, x{0026}lt;em Peoplex{0026}lt;/em ); x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Todo esto para quéx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong : Lionel Shriver no escribe, construye bombas (Laura Fernández, x{0026}lt;em El Mundox{0026}lt;/em ); x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Big Brotherx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong : La lucidez de Lionel Shriver nos da siempre un merecido y a ratos hilarante bofetón. Nos mantiene despiertos (Marta Sanz, x{0026}lt;em El Confidencialx{0026}lt;/em ); x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Los Mandiblex{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong : La autoconsciente brillantez de sus diálogos y el satírico aliento de su prosa se conjuran, como en las mejores novelas de Jonathan Franzen o Jeffrey Eugenides, a favor de sus personajes, que siempre resultan cercanos (Sergi Sánchez, x{0026}lt;em El Periódicox{0026}lt;/em ); x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Propiedadx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em privadax{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong : Shriver en la cúspide de su talento (x{0026}lt;em Financialx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;em Timesx{0026}lt;/em ), y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em El movimiento del cuerpo a través delx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em espaciox{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong : Un bilioso retrato de los adictos al fitnessx{0026} x02026; Pocos autores pueden ser tan entretenidamente problemáticos como Shriver (Alfred Hickling, x{0026}lt;em The Guardianx{0026}lt;/em ).x{0026}lt;/p