Intimately addressed to “you,” the listener, The Blue Book is both a portrait of two methodical con artists and a meditation on “how love is a private language, a set of codes, to which the outside world ought not admit impediment” (Telegraph)/5(96). The Blue Book is a haunting meditation (per the Telegraph) about "how love is a private language, a set of codes, to which the outside world ought not admit impediment; about the rightness of doing wrong by false love when true love is waiting down the companionway.". “A.L. Kennedy's novel The Blue Book is a brilliantly told love story, one filled with riddles, deception, and razor sharp prose.”—Largehearted Boy From Booklist Beth boards a cruise ship with her boyfriend, Derek, and is almost immediately interrupted by a stranger showing her a magic trick/5(94).
A.L. Kennedy was born in Dundee in She is the author of 14 books: 6 novels, 5 short story collections, and 3 works of non-fiction. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. N ever judge a book by its cover, we are told near the beginning of AL Kennedy's new novel. The Blue Book is itself a very fine object and looks like a lovely old volume on palmistry. This is apt. Original Bliss Nov by A.L. Kennedy. (5) £ £ The stories collected in Original Bliss are concerned, appropriately, with the complexities of sex and the lack of it. In the long novella that gives the book its title, Helen Brindle thinks she has lost God - but it is simply love that she's missing.
the blue book by A.L. Kennedy ‧ RELEASE DATE: Ma On an ocean liner during a trans-Atlantic voyage, emotions are intensified as love relationships get tossed about. Not that The Blue Book is anything like that. My copy is a lovely hardback in deep, deep royal blue with golden lettering and on the cover is the palm of a hand engraved in gold and enclosed in a circle. All three outer edges of the book have also been coloured deep blue. It’s like a blue box. #THE BLUE BOOK AL KENNEDY #Download file | read online the blue book al kennedy The Blue Book Boarding an ocean liner with her boyfriend Derek, Beth comes face-to-face with her past in the form of Arthur, an ex-lover, which conjures up the memories of their unsavory past, acting as spiritual mediums to fleece the innocent out of their hard.
0コメント