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Sir Hugo Coal non è mai stato un filantropo. Anche quando non vegetava sulla sedia a rotelle, aveva la tendenza a considerare gli esseri umani meno comprensibili ed eleganti dell'enorme scheletro di sauro che andava pazientemente ricostruendo. Ma quello che vede ora, nella sua villa, nei rari momenti in cui i suoi familiari non lo costringono a fissare una parete, gli piace anche meno. È chiaro che Fledge, l'ambiguo maggiordomo, sta ordendo una sua trama assai sinistra. Di quella trama la moglie, la figlia e sir Hugo stesso, fanno più o meno consapevolmente parte. Quel che è meno chiaro è in che modo sir Hugo possa usare l'unica arma, peraltro letale, che gli resta, il suo "sguardo fisso di lucertola".
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- Pagine: 213
- Data di uscita: 26-03-2003
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Do you know the filthiest dirty joke ever told? It begins with a family of entertainers walking into a talent agent's office, who asks them to perform their act; the joke's midsection depends on the teller, who then ad-libs the most vile, lewd and disgusting things imaginable: murder, rape, pedophil Leggi tutto
A strange mash-up of The Remains of the Day and one of the Blandings books. The short novel is narrated by Sir Hugo Coal a gentleman paleontologist. Like his name and that which he studies he is something of an anachronism. Faded gentry living in a crumbling stately pile that is as full of buckets c Leggi tutto
One of the best unreliable narrator tales I have read in some time, The Grotesque is told by Sir Hugo Coal, the head of an old, fading estate in the English countryside circa 1949. The Coal estate now consists of the leakly manor house, a few outbuildings and a pig farm. In some ways, The Grotesque
L’origine del termine grottesco risale alle pitture e agli affreschi ritrovati in antiche grotte e in ville romane. Per l’esagerazione o alterazione di alcuni aspetti dei soggetti rappresentati esso giunse più tardi a definire un vero e proprio genere letterario. Si tratta sempre della rappresentazi Leggi tutto
Brilliantly written and very, very funny. The only negative thing I can say about this book is that it caused me to laugh so hard that a snot bubble came out of my nose in the middle of a crowded commuter train. I would describe it as a malevolent Jeeves and Wooster with a dash of Dorian Gray, and I Leggi tutto
Clearly demonstrating that it is never too late to embark on the career for which you were intended, Patrick McGrath's first novel, "The Grotesque," was released in May 1989, when its author was pushing 40 years old. Although the Englishman had come out with a volume of shorter pieces earlier that y Leggi tutto
I was going to say that America has Stephen King, Britain has Patrick McGrath, but actually McGrath is more Gothic than King (perhaps a better representative from America would be Thomas Tryon ) A master of the macabre, this author is known for spewing ghastly tales with a grim and dire, yet lyrical p Leggi tutto
Perhaps the ultimate unreliable narrator, Sir Hugo Coal is paralyzed. He can't communicate, except through this novel. Aristocratic, entitled, and horribly class-conscious, he oversees his manor, Crook, in England. He likes things just so, and he has no tolerance for those who differ with his opinio Leggi tutto
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