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Picture of Contented New Wealth, The - A metaphysical horror Tariq Goddard

Picture of Contented New Wealth, The - A metaphysical horror par Tariq Goddard

Picture of Contented New Wealth, The - A metaphysical horror Tariq Goddard


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A gothic tragedy set in the 1980s, bringing characterisation and a literary sensibility to the traditional horror story. It presents a mix of generic elements and mystical realism that deal with the irreducibility of evil and its successful normalisation in to our daily and dominant reality.

Picture of Contented New Wealth, The - A metaphysical horror Résumé

Picture of Contented New Wealth, The - A metaphysical horror Tariq Goddard

In the brilliant red doom of a Hampshire Sunset Brigit Conti can hear a voice behind her ears that is not her own. Bed-bound, and complaining of a rare bone disease that no Doctor can diagnose, her husband fears that the house they have purchased is a portal through which an older, more malign energy has passed, possessing his wife and son. Through their successive deterioration his secular and agnostic world-view undergoes a metamorphosis, drawing him to a strange man from the hills: the Rector, their unlikely saviour. Or are he and his family merely victims of their own self-serving yuppie way of life? You Were The Picture of Contented New Wealth is a gothic tragedy set in the nineteen eighties, bringing proper characterisation and a literary sensibility to the traditional horror story. It's mix of generic elements and mystical realism deal with the irreducibility of evil and its successful normalisation in to our daily and dominant reality.

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For previous Whitbread prize novel,Homage to a firing squad: A pacy, poised and undeniably exciting debut...a teat bleakly humorous, well written adventure Boyd Tonkin, Independent

À propos de Tariq Goddard

Tariq Goddard was born in London in 1975. He read Philosophy at King's College London, and Continental Philosophy at The University of Warwick and the University of Surrey. In 2002 his first novel, 'Homage to Firing Squad' was nominated for the Whitbread (Costa) Prize and the Wodehouse-Bollinger Comic Writing Award. He was included as one of Waterstones Faces of the Future, and the novel, whose film rights were sold, was listed as one of the Observer's Four debuts of the year. In 2003 his second novel, 'Dynamo', was cited as one of the ten best sports novels of all time by Observer Sport's Magazine. 'The Morning Rides Behind Us', his third novel was released in 2005 and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize for Fiction. He lives with his partner on a farm in Wiltshire where he is writing his new novel, 'The Message'.

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GOR002338877
9781846942709
1846942705
Picture of Contented New Wealth, The - A metaphysical horror Tariq Goddard
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
John Hunt Publishing
2009-09-24
230
Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Horror) 2010
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