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Chargement... Electrons librespar James Flint
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Picked this up in a charity shop just days before the Iceland volcano grounded European airspace (April 2010) with ash.... so reading it under clear skies (no vapour trails for the first time I could remember)and read it with a special resonance. January 2011 the artist James Acord whose stories inspired the book dies by his own hand and a year after reading it the whole nuclear situation is thrown into focus after the Tsunami damages the Fukishima power plant in Japan. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and nearly bought another one in the best bookshop in the world (Scarthin Books, Cromford) but do I dare? Perhaps if I made a wooden cover, or only read it sitting in a wooden chair..... Read the book again with massive enjoyment even though I knew the plot. And ordered Habitus from the 'Abebooks' second hand site. Looking forward to reading it. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Wonderfully told, funny and touching, The Book of Ash is the story of a son's search for his father and his struggle to understand his family and the adult world. Twenty years ago Cooper James' life was torn apart. His family collapsed among the claustrophobic confines of a rural hippy commune. Cooper hasn't seen his father since the day his adultery was uncovered. As an adult he tries to forget his bizarre past and get on with the present but when a coffee canister, sent from America, filled with a strange grey dust arrives at his work, he is called before his superiors to explain. If it is not an anthrax hoax, then what is it? Could it be the ashes of his father? And if so, how has it found its way to him? Cooper leaves Britain for the United States where he tries to piece together the shards of his father's life from the conflicting accounts of his wierd and highly unreliable friends. And through these encounters he learns all the things that his father might have told him, father-to-son - and what really happened the night his father left. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Read the book again with massive enjoyment even though I knew the plot. And ordered Habitus from the 'Abebooks' second hand site. Looking forward to reading it. ( )