Kensington Gardens: A Novel

Kensington Gardens: A Novel
Автор
 
Год
 
Страниц
 
384
ISBN
 
0374181012
Издатель
 
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Категория
 
Новинки Зарубежки

Содержание:

Парадоски, Провенансы, Куклы, Конспекты по Мерабу, Из летних записей, Танго, День рождения, Раздоры, Истрия, Рыбки-прилипалы, Невстреча, Мне снился сон, Таксистка, Песнь натурщицы, Спор суфиев, Вуду, Вместо интервью, Профессионалы, Главный герой, Колыбельная, Реквием, Карамзиндеревенский дневник, Гордневник

Описание:

A tale of two Londons, and two writers obsessed with Peter Pan, from one of Latin America’s most playful and stylish novelists A children’s writer unreels a shocking confession in Rodrigo FresA?n’s dazzling English-language debut. Known to millions by his pen name, Peter Hook, FresA?n’s hero has survived the death of his rock-star parents, and a childhood surrounded by 1960s excess, to become the most successful children’s author of his generation, best loved as the creator of the time-traveling boy Jim Yang. Over the course of one night, Peter tells his life story—and that of J. M. Barrie, creator of Peter Pan—to the child actor cursed with playing Jim Yang in the movies. Gradually, a fantastical and terrible tale emerges, a tale of shadow identities and suicide, lost boys and foundlings. Moving between the Edwardian age and Swinging London, Kensington Gardens is an exploration of the...

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