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We know from the earliest pages of Neil Jordan's numinous, slow-building fourth novel, Shade that its narrator, 50-old Nina Hardy, has been murdered with a pair of gardening shears by her childhood friend George Truite. The mystery is not who has committed this crime, but why. And although George has been for some years a resident of the local insane asylum, only recently allowed to experiment again with independent living, his madness is but a small part of the answer to that question. Set in Ireland near Drogheda, at the mouth of the river Boyne, Shade casts a wistful eye on childhood desires and alliances, and its lonely-girl-in-a-big-house beginnings will call to mind William Trevor's The Story of Lucy Gault . But like Jordan's greatest success, the film The Crying Game , this novel is full of surprises - and the biggest shocks are not always the most telling. - Jill Harvey
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Shade, Neil Jordan
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- Année de publication
- 2005
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- Titre
- Shade
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Neil Jordan
- Éditeur
- Hodder Pb
- Publié
- 2005
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 319
- ISBN10
- 0719561884
- ISBN13
- 9780719561887
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Polars & Thrillers, Fantasy, Romans historiques, Polars, Amour, Famille, Suspense, Amitié, Prose de guerre, Guerres, Phénomènes surnaturels, Meurtres, Divertissement, Irlande, Littérature irlandaise, Enfance, Acteurs et actrices, Fraudes
- Titre original
- Shade
- Évaluation
- 2,95 sur 5
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- We know from the earliest pages of Neil Jordan's numinous, slow-building fourth novel, Shade that its narrator, 50-old Nina Hardy, has been murdered with a pair of gardening shears by her childhood friend George Truite. The mystery is not who has committed this crime, but why. And although George has been for some years a resident of the local insane asylum, only recently allowed to experiment again with independent living, his madness is but a small part of the answer to that question. Set in Ireland near Drogheda, at the mouth of the river Boyne, Shade casts a wistful eye on childhood desires and alliances, and its lonely-girl-in-a-big-house beginnings will call to mind William Trevor's The Story of Lucy Gault . But like Jordan's greatest success, the film The Crying Game , this novel is full of surprises - and the biggest shocks are not always the most telling. - Jill Harvey