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Carregando... In the Absence of Heroesde Anthony McCarten
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McCarten has written a dazzlingly clever sequel to Death of a Superhero. “A prophet is not without honour,” as someone once said, “but in his own country, and in his own house.” You sometimes wonder how Anthony McCarten manages to sneak so completely beneath the radar of literary celebrity in this neck of the woods. McCarten’s latest, In the Absence of Heroes, is yet another damned fine novel. It’s the sequel to Death of a Superhero, featuring the Delpe family again (firmly ensconced in Watford), minus Donald, the first novel’s main character. It’s over a year since Donnie’s death from cancer, and the family is falling apart. É uma (não-sériada) sequela dePrêmios
Jim and Renata Delpe's life is in a very modern crisis. With their son, Jeff, sending text messages to his dead brother while slipping quickly into internet addiction, and with Renata engaged in a secret internet relationship with a figure she has never actually met, Jim Delpe - who has long had 'a love-hate relationship' with computers - is left with no choice but to log in himself, if the family is to be saved. In this ambitious, suspenseful and achingly human novel, set against the decline of the nuclear family and the unstoppable rise of digital relationships, In The Absence Of Heroes gives us the complex modern world, full of hard, binary choices: make one or two bad choices in a row and just see what happens . . . Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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This is a contemporary novel set in Britain. The Delphe family are struggling to come to terms with the death of 16year old Donald Delphe from cancer. Their older son Jeff is slipping into internet addiction, staying on in the family home in an attempt to support his grieving parents. Father Jim is trying to live as if nothing has happened and mother Renata starts seeking help from an unknown via the internet.
When Jeff finally decides he has had enough and disappears, Renata becomes even more distressed and Jim decides he has no option other than to log on to track his son through the game he has become absorbed in and soon realises how it can take over one's life.
This is a book with pace and tackles one of the complex issues faced in this modern age. (