Cherries In The Snow
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- 14,99 €
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- 14,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
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'Shrewd, cool, sure and insightful' - Independent
'A literary Lolita' - Vanity Fair
'Electric, irreverent prose. When people talk about voice, this is what they mean' - Ethan Hawke
'A gorgeous novel' - Julie Burchill
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In Sadie's head, she's a novelist. In real life, she spends her day searching for the ultimate way to say red at Grrl, an ultra hip make-up company. In her sex life, she's a modern-day Lolita who's never dated a man under forty.
Then Sadie falls in love with Marley, a graffiti artist with a firm commitment to another woman: his eight-year-old daughter, Montana. Sadie isn't used to competing for a man's affections and certainly not with a little girl who is uncannily like herself. Real love could just be too grown up for her...
Cherries in the Snow is a novel about womanhood, love, and lipstick. Flippant, sexy, acid and smart, this is Emma Forrest at her most dazzling.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Sadie Steinberg needs a makeover a life makeover. While the 24-year-old British heroine of Forrest's unsurprising third novel has a knack for naming cosmetics (Sophisticated Inebriate, Sexy Rabbi, Jet Lag) at her friends' trendy New York makeup company, Grrrl, she can't seem to remember the name of her favorite fruit (is it a mango or a papaya?), get started on the Great American Novel she's been meaning to write or stop falling for older men who resemble her dad. When Sadie finally does meet the right guy a former graffiti artist turned yoga-practicing corporate art consultant she nearly loses him by trying to out temper tantrum his eight-year-old daughter. Hijinks involving soy milk, a tutu, plastic surgery, a cat named Sidney Katz, trips to Los Angeles, and, of course, face paint, ensue, and the narrative meanders toward a conventional denouement. Taking her title from a shade of lipstick by Revlon, Forrest (Namedropper) jazzes up her edgier version of chick lit with clever sleaze (an ex-lover has a "genius penis"), though most of the pop-culture references have the shelf life of the latest eye shadow. Like Sadie's beloved Ding Dongs, the novel is low in nutritional value, but readers who've dreamed of being the "model New York City single girl" will eat it up regardless.
