Damage (hardback)
ISBN:
9780517131565 (0517131560)
Publish date: February 13th 1996
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
Erotica,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Dark
Esta frase describe muy bien al personaje principal :It had been so simple. I was trembling with joy and longing. Lines from childhood sang in my head, ‘All a-wonder and a wild, wild longing’.My maniac’s face as I walked from the booth startled a passer-by.Un libro breve pero excelente.
This was recommended to me by a friend as "the best book [he's] ever read", and I'm afraid I couldn't disagree more! It's incredibly tedious. The characters are so dreary and self-obsessed I just wanted to give them a good slap. The fact that I kept visualising Jeremy Irons as the main character did...
“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”By the time the narrator of this story is fifty he has lived his life almost as if by accident. An unexceptional childhood followed by an impassionate marriage and successful but unfulfilling careers, first as a G.P and subsequently as an up...
Hot...and tragic.
Damage is one of those novels that you know from the start is not going to end well. It tells you so in almost the first paragraph, but therein lies the draw. What happens to make such a statement? What could possess someone to conscientiously do something so wrong that would cause him or her to mak...