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Where'd You Go, Bernadette

The New York Times bestseller, now a major motion picture starring Cate Blanchett
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
352 Seiten
Englisch
Orion Publishing Coerschienen am04.07.2013
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KlappentextThe hit New York Times bestseller, now a major motion picture starring Cate Blanchett
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-78022-124-3
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2013
Erscheinungsdatum04.07.2013
Seiten352 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 128 mm, Höhe 195 mm, Dicke 22 mm
Gewicht261 g
Artikel-Nr.15375088
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GenreRomane Taschenbuch

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Kritik
Where'd You Go, Bernadette is a wonderful piece of satire that pinpoints so many of the flaws in our current society. [Semple's] writing is sharp and witty but also incredibly heart-warming. DOG EAR DISCS 20130404 It has had a strong hardback life, it's had some great reviews, now it's got to really capture the masses. I normally don't like books written in emails, journals, notes form, and had not realised this was - just as I hadn't realised Salmon Fishing in the Yemen was! This has the same feel, same contagious look, same wacky scenario (well, not quite), same relentless pull. From page one I was smitten, my dislike for emails forgotten. It is the mother/daughter relationship which is so brilliant, that and the character of Bernadette - a prize-winning architect who doesn't realise that what she needs in life is a new project Clever, witty and hugely satisfying THE BOOKSELLER 20130329 it's a very enjoyable read and the satirical look at modern life THE BOOKBAG 20130415 Laugh-out-loud funny and bitingly satirical DAILY EXPRESS 20130531 a breathtakingly original comedy ES MAGAZINE Maria Semple's witty, engaging novel takes the form of a collage of documents, emails, transcripts, liveblogs, FBI reports and magazine articles, all strung together by Bee Branch, a smart and articulate 15-year-old girl, but beneath this surface playfulness is a fascinating story of one woman's retreat from the world...refreshing in its honesty and complexity THE OBSERVER a novel full of honesty and heart CNN The funniest book I've read in a decade. I laughed to the point of crying on an airplane. My wife thought I'd lost my mind until she read it a few days later. -- John Green MARIE CLAIRE 20130701 an invigorating, hilarious, addictive ride of a novel -- Maggie O'Farrell Local menace, genius architect, recluse, mother: meet Bernadette Fox and her Mensa-level teenage daughter Bea as they travel from silicon valley-Seattle to Antartica and back again. With the kind of sharp, wish-I-wrote-it dialogue you'd expect from a former Saturday Night Live scriptwriter, this is like Tina Fey wrote Welcome to the Goon Squad. I can't say enough about this book, I loved it. -- Sam Baker HARPERS BAZAAR Witty and compelling. THE SUN ON SUNDAY 20130630 This fiercely sophisticated novel... whips us around in the maelstrom that is Bernadette Fox: a woman on the edge. SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE full of quirky charm about the mother/daughter bond GOOD HOUSEKEEPING This novel, shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction, uses email correspondence to hilarious and heartbreaking effect. The disappearance of Bernadette Fox drives the engaging plot, with the mother/daughter relationship across geographical divides at its core METRO When eccentric ex-architect Bernadette goes AWOL, her 15-year-old daughter, Bee, goes all Sherlock and reads her mum's emails for some answers - and a secret past. Surprisingly, I found myself seriously LOLing too. No wonder it's being turned into a movie! COMPANY It is extremely funny, and Semple has a way of combining a technologically savvy, ice-cool wit with a stealthy ability to show gradually a character's warmer side. -- Tom Cox THE SUNDAY TIMES This is an extraordinary novel - a fresh, funny, perceptive voice, and an exhilarating read. GOOD BOOK GUIDE it's refreshing in its honesty and complexity -- Natasha Tripney THE OBSERVER Semple is a TV comedy writer, and the pleasures here are the pleasures of the best American TV: plot, wit and heart. It's refreshing to find a female misunderstood genius at the heart of the book, and a mother-daughter relationship characterised by unadulterated mutual affection. -- Justine Jordan THE GUARDIAN compulsively readable comedy... packed with wit, honesty and charm MUMSNET Refreshing, honest and witty, this novel about motherhood zips and fizzes along, from start to end -- Janine Cook THE INDEPENDENT '50 Best Beach Reads' Delivered from multiple perspectives through letters, telephone calls, magazine articles and emails, it is cleverly plotted and compulsively readable. -- Ian Wall PROPERTY WEEK Semple's exuberant tale is buoyed up by deft plotting and pitch-perfect characters, whose idiosyncrasies and wrong-headed interactions are by turns comic, tender and craven. Excellent stuff. -- James Urquhart FT This light relief on the Women's prize shortlist has warmth and bite in equal measure. Brilliant, troubled Bernadette - a visionary architect who's started a family but lost the plot - is a fantastic creation, and Semple's picaresque comedy, told through letters, emails and even a live blog, skewers the absurdities of American privilege while drawing a heartfelt portrait of mother-daughter love THE GUARDIAN I've been devouring the savagely funny Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple. A TV comedy writer, Semple's wide array of targets include parenting, over-achievement, schoolgates rivalry, creativity, Seattle, Canadians, Microsoft, Antarctica and marital love... Semple is funny, smart and deeply touching -- Rowan Pelling THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Where'd You Go, Bernadette is my favorite novel so far this year. It's funnier than a season's worth of Modern Family, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Justified episodes; it's also the most original and imaginative fiction I've read since The Invention of Hugo Cabret -- James Patterson NEW YORK TIMES ...this book is highly enjoyable. -- David Hebblethwaite FOLLOW THE THREAD ...wonderfully eccentric MUMSNET This is an extraordinary novel - a fresh, funny, perceptive voice, and an exhilarating read. GOOD BOOK GUIDE
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Autor

Maria Semple spent fifteen years in Los Angeles as a television writer, working on hit shows including ELLEN, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, MAD ABOUT YOU and ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. Her second novel, WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE, was an international bestseller and was shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction and won the 2013 Melissa Nathan Award. Maria lives in Seattle.

www.mariasemple.com