Summer Things - Softcover
Synopsis
Summer Things, Joseph Connolly's acclaimed and best-selling novel, is now an international film.
An unforgettable trip to the further shores of lust, snobbery and adultery, Summer Things is the much-loved comedy by one of Britain's funniest novelists. With a whirlwind plot and characters who let nothing stand between them and pleasure, Summer Things hurtles along with the exhilarating momentum of a roller coaster - unstoppable, startling and hilarious.
'This novel achieves all the authors intentions - predominant is the wish to make the reader laugh. Connolly has established himself as a very English comic author, in the tradition of P.G.Wodehouse.' The Times
'This is not a book about love, but a book about illicit, breathless, self-absorbed couplings and that kind of panic-ridden snobbery so dear to the English middle-class mentality, all described with gusto and distaste . . . observant and amusing.' Literary Review
'Excellent . . . viciously funny.' Daily Telegraph
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Joseph Connolly's Summer Things is the ultimate clever English farce. Genteel Chanel-wearing Elizabeth loves nothing better than orchestrating the lives of her friends and neighbours and is given ample opportunity to do so when she goes on holiday to a smart English seaside resort with her man-mad sister Melody and her neighbours, Brian (DIY fanatic and obsessive collector of manhole covers) and clucky, baby- crazy Dotty. Estate-agent-husband Howard has his own private reasons for wanting to stay at home, while seventeen-year-old daughter Katie is off to Chicago on an illicit vacation with an older man.
In Summer Things Connolly blends to perfection that sort of smutty, innuendo-driven humour that the British are so good at with sharp social satire, exposing the lies frequently embedded in the very foundations of cosy middle-class married life and laying bare the secret tragedies hiding within the rib-cages of even the most ludicrous of his characters. Within this captivating web of deception, lie some truly unexpected twists. --Anna Davis
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'The author has seen the world of human misery in a grain of seaside sand and his title is deeply, bleakly ironic ... Viciously funny' Daily Telegraph. (Daily Telegraph)
'This is not a book about love, but a book about illicit, breathless, self-absorbed couplings and that kind of panic-ridden snobbery so dear to the English middle-class mentality, all described with gusto and distaste' Literary Review. (Literary Review)
'Connolly has established himself as a very English comic author, in the tradition of P.G. Wodehouse' The Times. (The Times)
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0571220622
- ISBN 13 9780571220625
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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