Sin City

• Date de parution : 20/08/2012
• Editeur : Macmillan Bello Digital
• EAN : 9781447222699
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• Support : Livre numérique

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Hundreds of hopefuls enter competitions, few expect to win not even Carole Joseph, who has entered the same contest 63 times, under a variety of names, and is astounded by her prize of a holiday for two in glitzy Las Vegas. The winning name she borrowed is that of Norah Toomey, a... Voir plus

Hundreds of hopefuls enter competitions, few expect to win not even Carole Joseph, who has entered the same contest 63 times, under a variety of names, and is astounded by her prize of a holiday for two in glitzy Las Vegas. The winning name she borrowed is that of Norah Toomey, a middle-aged psychiatric patient not exactly the ideal travelling companion for a lively 18-year-old out for kicks. The two depart together, and a surprising bond of affection and dependence develops between the unlikely pair: impulsive Carole with her seesaw moods and explosive sexuality egging on the shy, unworldly Norah, whose only break to date from a lifetime in institutions has been the annual hospital day-trip to Littlehampton. But Las Vegas isnt Littlehampton, as these two innocents discover to their cost, as they are plunged into a lurid world of strippers and gamblers, brothels and crime. Sin City, on the surface, is a fairy-tale come (almost) true, a Disneyland for grown-ups, but beneath the neon rainbows lies not a crock of gold, but danger and delusion. Carole chases romance as well as Lady Luck, changing names to match the men she meets; lands up in a whorehouse in the desert. Norah, holy fool, finds totalfreedom more threatening than total constraint. Her muddled perception of the non-stop noise and neon, the garish merry-go-round, which wont stop and let her off, is both hilarious and moving. For both women, Las Vegas is a watershed, a crisis-point. One of the most interesting novelists of her generation. Intelligent and accessible . . . Sunday Telegraph A writer of authority and skill, with a wicked ear for conversational quirks. Sunday Times