The Beatles : « Eleanor Rigby » comme héroïne d’un roman

C’est le 10 Janvier 2005 que l’éditeur « Bloomsbury Publishing PLC », implanté aux Etats Unis, a publié un roman intulé « Eleanor Rigby », écrit par Douglas Coupland, et qui a pour héroïne la Eleanor Rigby chantée par les Beatles, et sa légendaire solitude.
Nous vous livrons ci-après une chronique de l’ouvrage : {Liz Dunn isn’t morbid, she’s just a lonely woman with a very pragmatic outlook on life. Overweight, underemployed, and living in a nondescript condo with nothing but chocolate pudding in the fridge, she has pretty much given up on anything interesting ever happening to her. Everything changes when she gets an unexpected phone call from a Vancouver hospital and a stranger takes on a very intimate place in her life. From here the plot of Douglas Coupland’s Eleanor Rigby skyrockets into a very bizarre world, rife with reverse sing-alongs and apocalyptic visions of frantic farmers. The style and plot paths are very identifiably Coupland–slightly mystical, off-kilter, and very, very smart. Ultimately a novel about the burden of loneliness, Eleanor Rigby takes its characters through strange and sometimes nearly unimaginable predicaments.
Fans of Douglas Coupland’s later novels, particularly Hey Nostradamus! and Miss Wyoming, are bound to like Eleanor Rigby. Like many of his novels, the journey is strange and unexpected but you come out at the other end with a snapshot of a sardonic and bizarre but ever-so-slightly hopeful place.}
et la notice rédigée par l’éditeur du livre : {A riveting, witty, and profound story of loneliness and connection from internationally bestselling author Douglas Coupland.
The 1997 night that Hale-Bopp streaks across the skies over Vancouver, Liz Dunn has nothing in her life but impending oral surgery and an armful of schmaltzy video rentals to get her through her solitary convalescence in her sterile condo. She’s overweight, crabby, and plain, but behind her eyes lurk whole universes that she’s never had the opportunity to express. Just as Liz makes a quiet decision to seek peace in her life rather than certainty, along comes another comet, in the form of a young man admitted to the local hospital with her name and number inscribed on his Medic Alert bracelet: In case of emergency, contact Liz Dunn.
A charming lost soul and a strange visionary, Jeremy upends Liz’s quiet existence, triggering a chain of events that take her to the other side of the world and back, endangering her life just as a real chance at happiness finally seems within reach. By turns funny and heartbreaking, Eleanor Rigby is a fast-paced read and a haunting exploration of the ways in which loneliness affects us all.}
Pour avoir plus d’informations sur ce livre, et éventuellement l’acheter (attention ce livre n’est pas disponible en langue française), nous vous invitons à [cliquer ici.->http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/1582345236/yellowsubnet-21]