David Nicholls
Sweet Sorrow

2019 | Nakladatelství Bohemian Ventures, spol. s r.o.

One life-changing summerSixteen-year-old Charlie meets Fran...8 million copies since STARTER FOR TEN first introduced us to hisincomparable talent for making us laugh, cry and wince with recognition in the space of a single sentence; ten years after ONE DAY became the iconic love story for a generation; five years sinc…e the journey of US took him to the Man Booker Prize long-list;DAVID NICHOLLS has written a major new novel, SWEET SORROW:a hymn to the tragicomedy of ordinary lives, a celebration of the reviving power of friendship and that brief, blinding explosion of first love that perhaps can only be looked at directly once it has burned out.'Nicholls writes with such tender precision about love'The Times'There is a sharp empathetic intelligence to his writing that makes his characters real . . . the clear writing often dazzles with truth . . . sad funny, soulful' Observer'A sublime talent for illuminating the murky causeway that most of us have to navigate between darkness and light' Donal Ryan'Nicholls' ability to create and then subvert the traditional plot for comedy is the secret of his success. It makes us confront the gap between what we expect from storytelling and what happens in real life' One life-changing summerSixteen-year-old Charlie meets Fran...8 million copies since STARTER FOR TEN first introduced us to hisincomparable talent for making us laugh, cry and wince with recognition i…n the space of a single sentence; ten years after ONE DAY became the iconic love story for a generation; five years since the journey of US took him to the Man Booker Prize long-list;DAVID NICHOLLS has written a major new novel, SWEET SORROW:a hymn to the tragicomedy of ordinary lives, a celebration of the reviving power of friendship and that brief, blinding explosion of first love that perhaps can only be looked at directly once it has burned out.'Nicholls writes with such tender precision about love'The Times'There is a sharp empathetic intelligence to his writing that makes his characters real . . . the clear writing often dazzles with truth . . . sad funny, soulful' Observer'A sublime talent for illuminating the murky causeway that most of us have to navigate between darkness and light' Donal Ryan'Nicholls' ability to create and then subvert the traditional plot for comedy is the secret of his success. It makes us confront the gap between what we expect from storytelling and what happens in real life'

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O knize

Stav:	nová
Vazba:	Brožovaná
Počet stran:	406
Jazyk:	anglicky
ISBN10:	1444715410
ISBN:	9781444715415
Vydání:	1
Vystaveno:	23. 2. 2025 19:39
Číslo položky:	1146705

O autorovi

David Nicholls

Anglický spisovatel a scénárista. Narodil se v roce 1966 jako prostřední ze tří sourozenců. V letech 1983 až 1985 studoval angličtinu a dramatické a divadelní umění na univerzitě v Eastleigh v Hampshire, hrál také různé role ve školních divadelních představeních. Dále studoval na universitě v Bristolu, kde získal v roce 1983 titul bakaláře angličtiny a dramatického umění. Herecké zkušenosti získal též v newyorské American Musical and Dramatic Academy. V 80tých a 90tých letech se živil jako profesionální herec pod pseudonymem David Holdaway, dostal menší role v různých divadlech, např. West Yorkshire Playhouse a 3 roky hrál také v londýnském Národním divadle.

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