Robin Jenkins

Poor Angus (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"A blackly comic romp" of art, ambition, and sexual politics in the Scottish Isles: "a remarkable novel...written with the lightest of touches" ( The Sunday Times, UK). Struggling painter Angus McAllister has returned to the idyllic Hebridean island of his birth in the hope that it will inspire him to create his masterpiece. But soon, his privacy is invaded by Janet, a visitor with relatives on the island, who has decided that an affair with an artist would be the simplest way to incense and recapture her husband, a golf-fanatic devoid of imagination. So begins an irresistible story of comic lightness and serious implications; a tale told with Jenkins's characteristic ironic wit that explores the attitudes of men and women to sex and relationships, and which focuses on the psychology of the artist and the justification, if any, for art. " Poor Angusis a strange, wonderful love story [and] Jenkins a remarkable writer whose gentlest touch induces the greatest of pleasures."- The Times, UK

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857863676
• Artikelnr.: 38241501

Autorenporträt

Author of a number of landmark novels including The Cone Gatherers, The Changeling, Happy for the Child, The Thistle and the Grail and Guests of War, Jenkins is rapidly attaining recognition as one of Scotland's greatest writers. The themes of good and evil, of innocence lost, of fraudulence, cruelty and redemption shine through his work. His novels, shot through with ambiguity, are rarely about what they seem. He published his first book, So Gaily Sings the Lark, at the age of thirty-eight, and by the time of his death in 2005, over thirty of his novels were in print.