Adam Mars-Jones
Auteur de The Darker Proof: Stories from a Crisis
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Adam Mars-Jones
Mae West Is Dead: Recent Lesbian and Gay Fiction (1983) — Directeur de publication — 123 exemplaires
Fulfilment 4 exemplaires
Structural Anthropology 1 exemplaire
The Changes of Those Terrible Years {short story} 1 exemplaire
Neighbours 1 exemplaire
Slim 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Mr. Fortune's Maggot; and The Salutation [New York Review Classics edition] (2001) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 221 exemplaires
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- Date de naissance
- 1954-10-26
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
Virginia, USA - Études
- Westminster School, London, England, UK
University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall)
University of Virginia - Professions
- Professor (University of Virginia ∙ Creative Writing)
film critic - Prix et distinctions
- Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (1983)
Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (1993) - Agent
- PFD, Drury House
- Courte biographie
- Writer and critic Adam Mars-Jones was born in London in 1954. Educated at Westminster School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he studied and then taught Creative Writing at the University of Virginia. He was film critic for The Independent between 1986 and 1997 and for The Times between 1998 and 2000.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 21
- Aussi par
- 18
- Membres
- 941
- Popularité
- #27,309
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 19
- ISBN
- 58
- Langues
- 6
- Favoris
- 1
Although the relationship between Ray and Colin is clearly very unequal and exploitative, and it doesn't end happily, when it ends it does, counterintuitively, leave Colin more at ease with who he is and what he wants out of life. He is in a position to build a new, happy life for himself. This in contrast to Colin's father, whose similarly dependent relationship with Colin's mother drives him into a spiral of mental breakdown.
Fun because of all the nice period detail about bikers and sex in the seventies, before everyone got hung up on motorcycle safety and AIDS, but the plot felt a bit facile.… (plus d'informations)