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Bordeaux
Ein Roman in vier Jahrgängen
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- 9,99 €
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- 9,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
Frankie Wilberforce ist Anfang dreißig, erfolgreicher IT-Unternehmer und Single, er weiß genau, was er will. Eines Tages lernt er bei einem Ausflug den exzentrischen Landlord Francis Black kennen, zu dem er sofort eine tiefe Verbundenheit spürt. Die Begegnung verändert für ihn alles: Er wird in eine exquisite Gesellschaft von jungen Aristokraten und Hedonisten eingeführt, und schon bald verliebt er sich in eine Frau, in das pralle Leben, vor allem aber in die feine Kunst des Weintrinkens. Kurzerhand verkauft er sein Unternehmen und übernimmt Francis' spektakulären Weinkeller. Nur drei Jahre später ist Wilberforce ein Wrack.
Paul Torday hat mit Bordeaux einen mitreißenden Roman über Obsessionen, Sucht, Loyalität und die unglaubliche Kraft des Zufalls geschrieben.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Sophomore novelist Torday (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen) meditates on the question of what money can and cannot buy in this subtle, sorrowful tale of a man who has mistaken his alcoholism for happy gluttony. Frances Wilberforce has pulled himself up from nothing; an orphan adopted by a family of middle-class means, he made a mint when he sold his software business. Drinking four bottles of wine a day, sometimes spending thousands of pounds on a single, exquisite bottle, Wilberforce doesn't take long to drink his way through his new fortune. When friends confront him with his problem, he maintains that he does not have an addiction; rather, he has an interest in fine wine. It's a fine distinction, and as the narrative tracks backwards to reveal the events that precipitated Wilberforce's fall the death of his wife, a series of new friendships with a set of dissolute, landed gentry it sharpens its depiction of the cheerful face that money can put on an unhappy life. Torday is a talented writer and manages this sad story deftly, mixing in redeeming doses of humor and empathy.