{"title":"Sebastian Faulks","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"engleby","title":"Engleby","description":"Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 \/* Style Definitions *\/ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:\"Normal Table\"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:\"\"; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-to-margin:0cm; mso-to-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:\"Times New Roman\"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} Possessing an elegant and often poetic prose, Sebastian Faulks won over critics and fans with gripping historical novels such as Birdsong—about World War I—and Charlotte Gray—about World War II. Faulks's narrative is so passionate and intense that it can be considered a moving and unforgettable tour de force. The stories of his heroes are seen and experienced under the scrutiny of major global transformations. In Engleby, he turns to a much more recent historical setting, the 1970s, and shifts the narrative focus to the first person. Here, the hero tells his own story, amidst bursts of brilliance and sociopathy. One of the author's most interesting characters, unpleasant, possibly perverse, yet crudely lucid and simply funny. It is through Michael Engleby's diaries that we come into contact with his singularities. A natural sciences student at Cambridge University, intellectually precocious and unsociable, Mike commits petty thefts to support his excessive alcohol and drug use. Finding no meaning in life, he spends most of his time driving his Morris 1100 and listening to rock 'n' roll. Obsessed with fellow history student Jennifer Arkland, he becomes a prime suspect when she disappears after a party. The investigation drags on for years, while Engleby establishes his career as a journalist. When Jen's remains finally resurface, unwanted memories resurface—her impoverished family, her father's death, her scholarship to one of England's top public schools, the bullying she suffered there—and make our antihero wonder if he has anything to do with her fate. Here, life and death are rendered with Faulks's refined style. A relentlessly frank and poignant account of a generation trapped in an era of pop music and pretensions.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175901544700,"sku":"9788501084668","price":79.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/4e0a61cd5ed3fc8b62e081d8050ebf9f_8c63725b-5fab-4218-8d86-af8f4ebf3d8f.jpg?v=1778322103"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/sebastian-faulks.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}