Categorie: Faber & Faber
-
Grief is the Thing with Feathers
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571383795-grief-is-the-thing-with-feathers/ Review: Grief personified When a husband and his two sons loose their wife/mother, grief becomes a huge part of their life. Even though the boys seem to be able to cope with it a bit better than the father, there’s always the looming pain of not having their mother around. While they try to…
-
The Death of Francis Bacon
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571370702-the-death-of-francis-bacon/ Review: A Painted Veil The final days of the painter Francis Bacon ((1909-1992) are portrayed in this novella by Max Porter, in seven fictitious paintings. Through these seven paintings we see through the eyes of the painter how he lies on his deathbed, with only a nurse by his side. ‘Take a seat why…
-
So late in the Day
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571382019-so-late-in-the-day/ Review: Cathal has another uneventful Friday, July 29th, and he’s about to step into a bus, towards the long weekend. While facing the weekend and during the trip on the bus and the walk to his house, he thinks of a woman Sabine, the woman he could have had a life with if he…
-
Lord of the Flies
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571374250-lord-of-the-flies-the-graphic-novel/ (English version) https://scratch-books.com/portfolio-item/lord-of-the-flies/ (Nederlandse versie) Review: I am ashamed to say I haven’t read William Golding’s Lord of the Flies yet, apart from now this wonderful graphic novel and I have seen the movie adaptation when I was younger… so I went in knowing something about the story, but I was also partly going…
-
Foster
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571379149-foster/ Review: A father drops his child off at some relatives, the Kinsellas. The girl is suddenly thrown into a bath of warmth and love, such as she has never truly known at home (with all the siblings and a new one arriving real soon at home). She doesn’t know what to feel at first…
-
Small Things like these
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571368709-small-things-like-these/ Review: 1985, in a small Irish town where everybody knows everybody. Bill Furlong is a coal and timber merchant and it’s a very busy period as Christmas is approaching. At home he has a wife and five daughters waiting for him, happily married and coming by with what Bill brings in. As he makes…
-
The Gentleman from Peru
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571385119-the-gentleman-from-peru/ Review: Warning: do not expect another ‘Call me by your Name’! As a group of American friends are stranded on the Amalfi Coast in Italy, they enjoy sun, drinks and the wonderful food. While they wait for their ship to be repaired so they can travel on they stay at a hotel where an…
Looneybooks79 