Editorial Vintage UK
Fecha de edición mayo 2004
Idioma inglés
EAN 9780099267591
352 páginas
Libro
encuadernado en tapa blanda
When 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change. Like a spiritual convert, the familial paragon becomes an anti-husband, an anti-father.
He submits to an alien moral system - one among many to be found in these pages. We are introduced to the inverted worlds of the 'yellow' journalist, Clint Smoker; the high priest of hardmen, Joseph Andrews; the porno tycoon, Cora Susan; and Royce Traynor, the corpse in the hold of the stricken airliner, apparently determined, even in death, to bring down the plane that carries his spouse. Meanwhile, we explore the entanglements of Henry England: his incapacitated wife, Pamela; his Chinese mistress, He Zizhen; his fifteen-year-old daughter, Victoria, the victim of a filmed 'intrusion' which rivets the world - because she is the future Queen of England, and her father, Henry IX, is its King.
x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong Martin Amisx{0026}lt;/strong (Swansea, 1949 - Florida, 2023) estudió en Oxford y debutó brillantemente como novelista con x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em El libro de Rachel,x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong galardonada en 1973 con el Premio Somerset Maugham, publicada en España (en 1985) por Anagrama, al igual que x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Otra gente,x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Dinero, Campos de Londres, La flecha del tiempo, La información, Tren nocturno, Niños muertos, Perro callejero, La Casa de los Encuentros, La viuda embarazada, Lionel Asbo.x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em El estado de Inglaterra x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong yx{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em La zona de interés,x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong los relatos de x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Mar gruesa,x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong los ensayos de x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Visitando a Mrs. Nabokov, La guerra contra el cliché, El segundo aviónx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em El roce del tiempo,x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong y los libros de carácter autobiográfico x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Experienciax{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Koba el Temible. x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong Su última obra es x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Desde dentro.x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;/p
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