📗 Libro en inglés THE AMERICAN NO

Full of kindness even tenderness He is a brilliant writer opulently gossipy as few are these days but also truthful witty wise and stoical Rachel Cooke Observer Everett is a brilliant writer funny waspish warm and seductive Camilla Long The Times An eccentric and exquisite new collection of stories Tatler Richly imagined and extraordinarily affecting Everett is a terrific storyteller Hadley Freeman Sunday Times Eight stories of love and loss drama and glamour hope and rejection from a writer at the height of his powers In Rupert Everett s first glorious collection of stories he takes us on an exhilarating journey with a cast of extraordinary characters A blackly humorous story of a chaotic and emotional funeral in Paris Oscar Wilde s last night in Paris vividly evocative unflinching and elegiac A middle aged American Russian countess who confronts sex and age in a Wiltshire teashop The ferociously unforgiving life of an L A talent agency and the unexpected twist that launches a completely different kind of career The deathbed confession of a woman who left home for 1850s India never to return A story of emigration love and grief And a beautifully evocative touching and witty portrayal of Proust s creative life and h