{"title":"Ben Elton","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"inconcebivel","title":"INCONCEIVABLE","description":"Being a mother is like suffering in paradise. But conceiving can be a veritable journey to hell. In his latest novel, \"INCONCEIVABLE,\" English comedian and screenwriter Ben Elton recounts the adventures and misadventures of a Balzacian couple seeking to perpetuate the species. The book manages to be touching, without losing its charm, as it reveals the story of Sam and Lucy and their desire—not always coincidental—to have children. A clever satire that explains the lengths a man and a woman will go to conceive a child. And their intrinsic fear of failure in the most natural of human functions. Sam is, like Elton himself, a screenwriter—with plans to become a writer—struggling with writer's block. As if that weren't enough, he's about to lose his \"exciting\" desk job at the BBC. Lucy is a theatrical agent, representing all sorts of showbiz hams. To make matters worse, she's being harassed by an arrogant client, a sexy actor with plenty of good angles and no expression. Desperate with her biological clock ticking, she decides to get pregnant—just as her husband decides to dedicate more time to his career. INCONCEIVABLE features a Lucy obsessed with the idea of sterility and willing to try any and every alternative method, from adopting a baby gorilla remotely to visualizing the fetus inside the womb, to a workshop where women gather to scream and release their most primal desires. Gradually, spontaneity in bed gives way to ovulation charts. When all else fails, Lucy decides to turn to science and in vitro fertilization. But she begins to believe that the stress of conceiving is hindering conception and solves the problem in an unusual way: a diary for herself and another for her husband. He uses her own notes, and steals his, to write a comedy script. In INCONCEIVABLE, Ben Elton masterfully captures the dilemma of the male lost between the modern need to pay attention to his partner's emotional needs and his own masculinity. The book, with all the author's sharp humor, tells us that men will never understand women, and that's the whole point of a relationship. All of this is based on the daily lives of the couple, turned upside down by their decision to have a child (despite all their worries about the future of the world). INCONCEIVABLE gave rise to the film Maybe Baby, directed by Ben Elton himself—who also directed the British series Mr. Bean—and starring Emma Thompson. A work that examines infertility from different perspectives: male and female. The result, hilarious without being cruel, highlights the stark difference in men's and women's mindsets. \"Sometimes you want something so badly that you forget what you've already achieved,\" concludes Elton. In addition to working as a comedian, Ben Elton produced the sitcoms \"The Young Ones,\" \"Black Adder,\" and \"The Thin Blue Line\" for English television. He also wrote three successful West End plays—\"Gasping,\" \"Silly Cow,\" and \"Popcorn\"—and saw his five previous novels reach bestseller lists. In addition to \"INCONCEBÍVEL,\" Record has published other works by the author, including \"Popcorn\" and \"Nightmare of the Past.\" Ben Elton lives in London with his wife Sophie and their twins, Charlotte and Albert.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159680663804,"sku":"9788501060235","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}]}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/ben-elton.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}