Naoise Dolan
autor
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AVA pracuje v Hongkongu ako učiteľka angličtiny a hľadá šťastie, ktoré v Írsku nenašla.
JULIAN je bankár, ktorý Ave predstaví luxusný život. Dovolí mu za všetko platiť, nadviaže s ním sexuálny vzťah a keď sa Julian vráti do Londýna, Ava zostane v jeho byte.
Vtedy spoznáva EDITH, ktorá ju vodí do divadla a obdarúva kvetmi. Ava predstiera, že Julian je len spolubývajúci, takže keď sa vráti späť, musí sa rozhodnúť: ostane s Julianom, s ktorým bol jej život jednoduchší, alebo skočí do neznáma s Edith?
Vzrušujúce časy
AVA pracuje v Hongkongu ako učiteľka angličtiny a hľadá šťastie, ktoré v Írsku nenašla.
JULIAN je bankár, ktorý Ave predstaví luxusný život. Dovolí mu za všetko platiť, nadviaže s ním sexuálny vzťah a keď sa Julian vráti do Londýna, Ava zostane v jeho byte.
Vtedy spoznáva EDITH, ktorá ju vodí do divadla a obdarúva kvetmi. Ava predstiera, že Julian je len spolubývajúci, takže keď sa vráti späť, musí sa rozhodnúť: ostane s Julianom, s ktorým bol jej život jednoduchší, alebo skočí do neznáma s Edith?
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The Happy Couple
Meet the happy couple. Luke and Celine, are in mutual unrequited love with each other, set to marry in a year's time.
The best man, Archie, is meant to want to move up the corporate ladder and on from his love for Luke; yet he stands where he is, admiring the view.
The bridesmaid, Phoebe, Celine's sister, has no long-term aspirations beyond smoking her millionth cigarette and getting to the bottom of Luke's frequent unexplained disappearances.
Then there's the guest, Vivian, who with the benefit of some emotional distance, methodically observes her friends like ants.
As the wedding approaches and these five lives intersect, each character will find themselves looking for a path to their happily ever after - but does it lie at the end of an aisle?
Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times, makes the Marriage Plot entirely her own in a sparkling ensemble novel that is both ferociously clever and supremely enjoyable.
Exciting Times
Ava, newly arrived in Hong Kong from Dublin, spends her days teaching English to rich children.
Julian is a banker. A banker who likes to spend money on Ava, to have sex and discuss fluctuating currencies with her. But when she asks whether he loves her, he cannot say more than 'I like you a great deal'.
Enter Edith, a lawyer.
Refreshingly enthusiastic and unapologetically earnest, Edith takes Ava to the theatre when Julian leaves Hong Kong for work. Quickly, she becomes something Ava looks forward to.
And then Julian writes to tell Ava he is coming back to Hong Kong... Should Ava return to the easy compatibility of her life with Julian or take a leap into the unknown with Edith?
Politically alert, heartbreakingly raw, and dryly funny, Exciting Times is thrillingly attuned to the great freedoms and greater uncertainties of modern love.
In stylish, uncluttered prose, Naoise Dolan dissects the personal and financial transactions that make up a life-and announces herself as a singular new voice.
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Exciting Times
'Droll, shrewd and unafraid - a winning debut' Hilary Mantel, author of WOLF HALL
'I've been pushing Exciting Times on everyone I know. Some of Dolan's pithy observations of her characters are the best I've read since Edward St Aubyn' OBSERVER
'A frankly sensational book' Pandora Sykes on THE HIGH LOW
'In the tradition of Dorothy Parker, Joan Rivers and Nora Ephron ... I found myself purring with pleasure. ...This is comic writing at the highest level' Craig Brown, DAILY MAIL
When you leave Ireland aged 22 to spend your parents' money, it's called a gap year. When Ava leaves Ireland aged 22 to make her own money, she's not sure what to call it, but it involves:
- a badly-paid job in Hong Kong, teaching English grammar to rich children;
- Julian, who likes to spend money on Ava and lets her move into his guest room;
- Edith, who Ava meets while Julian is out of town and actually listens to her when she talks;
- money, love, cynicism, unspoken feelings and unlikely connections.
Exciting times ensue.
