Name: The English Understand Wool von Helen DeWitt (New Directions)
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The English Understand Wool Zusammenfassung

The English Understand Wool Helen DeWitt (New Directions)

Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned above all to avoid mauvais ton (bad taste loses something in the translation). One should not ask servants to wait on one during Ramadan: they must have paid leave while one spends the holy month abroad. One must play the piano; if staying at Claridge's, one must regrettably install a Clavinova in the suite, so that the necessary hours of practice will not be inflicted on fellow guests. One should cultivate weavers of tweed in the Outer Hebrides but have the cloth made up in London; one should buy linen in Ireland but have it made up by a Thai seamstress in Paris (whose genius has been supported by purchase of suitable premises). All this and much more she has learned, governed by a parent of ferociously lofty standards. But at 17, during the annual Ramadan travels, she finds all assumptions overturned. Will she be able to fend for herself? Will the dictates of good taste suffice when she must deal, singlehanded, with the sharks of New York?

The English Understand Wool Bewertungen

A staggeringly intelligent examination into the nature of truth, love, respect, beauty and trust...This is that rare thing, or merle blanc, as maman might say: a perfect book. I've read it four times, which you can do between breakfast and lunch. -- Nicola Shulman - The Times Literary Supplement
Weighing in at just 64 pages, Helen DeWitt's The English Understand Wool is a delight. -- Mia Levitin - The Irish Times
This is a short, sharp sliver of a story-only 64 pages-but every single word is pitch perfect... Think of it as the literary equivalent of a shot of ice-cold vodka-Belvedere or Grey Goose only, of course. -- Lucy Scholes - Prospect
For a wonderfully sideways take on the complex intersections between class, wealth and power-intersections that invariably favour those who have most of them already-I recommend reading The English Understand Wool, by the American writer Helen DeWitt. -- Alex Clark - The Observer
The English Understand Wool is Helen DeWitt's best and funniest book so far - quite a feat given the standards set by the rest of her work... Its pages are rife with wicked pleasures. It incites and rewards re-reading. -- Heather Cass White - The Times Literary Supplement
Readers of Helen DeWitt's limited previous output-two novels and a collection of stories in twenty-two years-will fall greedily on anything new. Her novella The English Understand Wool exceeds expectations. -- John Self - The Critic

Über Helen DeWitt (New Directions)

Helen DeWitt was born in a suburb of Washington, DC. Daughter of American diplomats, she grew up mainly in Latin America, living in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, and Ecuador. She went to Oxford to study classics for a BA and D.Phil. She left academia to try to write a novel, moving eventually to London and acquiring UK citizenship. She had some 100 fragments of novels when she began work in 1995 on the novel that was published as The Last Samurai in 2000. The book caused a sensation at the Frankfurt Bookfair 1999, going on to be translated in 20 languages (DeWitt reads some 15 languages to various degrees of fluency). On the reissue of The Last Samurai by New Directions in 2016 it was hailed by Vulture Magazine as The Best Book of the Century. She is also the author of Lightning Rods, a Mel Brooksian satire on sexual harassment, and Some Trick, a collection of stories. She has been based in Berlin since 2004, but also spends time at a cottage in the woods of Vermont improving her chainsaw skills.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR013244119

ISBN 13

9780811230070

ISBN 10

0811230074

Titel

The English Understand Wool Helen DeWitt (New Directions)

Autor

Helen DeWitt (New Directions)

Serien

Storybook ND Series

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Gebundene Ausgabe

Verlag

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Datum

2022-11-04

Anzahl der Seiten

64

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N/A

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