Name: The Killing of Butterfly Joe par Rhidian Brook
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The Killing of Butterfly Joe Résumé

The Killing of Butterfly Joe Rhidian Brook

'Wonderful entertainment' - The Times
'Larger-than-life fun' - Daily Mail
'A wild-eyed road trip across America, filled with colourful characters, crazy anecdotes, sparky dialogue' - Big Issue

'I killed Joe once, in a manner of speaking. But not twice. Not in the way you mean.'

Llew Jones wanted to see the States and write about the experience. Then he met Joe Bosco, a butterfly salesman as charismatic as he is infuriating, and they were soon hurtling across 1980s America together, caught up in an adventure that got way, way out of control. Now Llew is in jail, his friend is gone, and he has to give his side of the story if he's ever going to get free . . .

Part existential road trip, part neo-gothic thriller, part morality tale, The Killing of Butterfly Joe by Rhidian Brook (author of The Aftermath, now a major movie starring Keira Knightly and Alexander Skarsgard) is a dazzling and propulsive novel full of characters you'll never forget. An epic story of friendship, desire, and participating in the Great American Dream - 'the one that leads from rags to riches via pitches' - whatever the consequences.

The Killing of Butterfly Joe Avis

A wonderful entertainment . . . a thoroughly readable and appealingly eccentric book * The Times *
An exuberant, coming-of-age romp . . . a bittersweet comedy of sentimental education . . . larger-than-life fun * Daily Mail *
A wild-eyed road trip across America, filled with colourful characters, crazy anecdotes, sparky dialogue . . . Brook's writing remains as considered and enchanting as ever. And it's funny too, which is always a wonderful thing * Big Issue *
A boldly unique book with an adventure story at its core . . . the biggest joy of this novel is in the brilliantly teased out sense of dread that starts the moment you pick up the book and read the title . . . a beautiful story, and beautifully told too . . . This novel is an adventure in every sense of the word * culturefly.com *
The Killing of Butterfly Joe is such a compelling, unusual, character-rich novel; a great pleasure to read. -- Gerard Woodward, author of I'll Go to Bed at Noon
Brook has created in Joe Boscoe a literary figure of epic proportions . . . his inventive, zestful take on American gothic is infectious. It makes for a wild, enjoyable ride * Church Times *
A mixture of thriller and great family saga, told in a rich literary style. Like having all the cakes and eating them. If I condensed my thoughts into one word in would be "epic". -- Joy Kluver, Literary Blogger

À propos de Rhidian Brook

Rhidian Brook is an award-winning writer of fiction. His first novel, The Testimony of Taliesin Jones, won several prizes including the Somerset Maugham Award. His third, The Aftermath, was an international bestseller and has been translated into twenty-five languages; it has also been made into a major motion picture, starring Keira Knightley and Alexander Skarsgard. He has written for television and the screen and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Thought For The Day. He once had a job selling butterflies in glass cases.

Informations supplémentaires

Sku

GOR009614637

ISBN 13

9781509816163

ISBN 10

150981616X

Titre

The Killing of Butterfly Joe Rhidian Brook

Auteur

Rhidian Brook

État

Occasion - Très bon état

Relié

Broché

Éditeur

Pan Macmillan

Année de publication

2019-01-24

Nombre de pages

352

Prix

N/A

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