This is Life - Dan Rhodes

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Résumé :
Amelie meets Knocked Up in a comic tour-de-force

* The funniest, most romantic book Dan Rhodes has ever written. It's full of zest and joy and art and Paris. Only to be read if you enjoy happiness. -- Jenny Colgan * Rhodes is that real, rare thing - a natural storyteller Sunday Times * My favourite writer who isn't dead. Stewart Lee * Dan Rhodes is a true original, with a fresh, funny, quirky style that seems to owe nothing to other writers and everything to his own powers of invention -- Hilary Mantel * Wonderfully unpredictable. Draws you in from the first page -- Alan Carr * A literary treasure -- Louis De Bernieres * Bound to be every bit as weird and inexplicitly beautiful as all Rhode's other novels. Independent on Sunday * This is the mad-yet-logical world of Dan Rhodes, possibly Britain's most idiosyncratic writer. delightfully unique -- Kate Saunders The Times * The wit is spot-on, the writing immaculate, the atmosphere so French you can smell the Gauloises...I loved it -- Wendy Holden Daily Mail * This is Life is a true melange of talk, action, lust and performance art ... the novel has many charms -- Daneet Steffens The Independent on Sunday * His novel is not a mockery of the chick-lit genre, even if it is aware of the narrative conventions of the genre and takes gentle pot-shots every now and then. It simply takes a popular formula and gives it a very welcome edge. Superb -- Lesley McDowell The Scotsman * A reminder of how strange ordinary life is and it challenges us to adjust to the darkness -- Michael Holroyd The Guardian * Rhodes has enormous fun here, sending up the intellectual onanism of the visual arts world in conspicuously clean, plain prose while also embracing the romantic mythology of his Parisian setting -- Claire Allfree Metro * Whether it's a novel about life imitating art or the other way around, Rhodes, like Le Machine, has managed to bottle something of both -- Emma Hagestadt Independent * It is irresistible: quality froth infused with restrained comic irony, some very nice touches of dark humour and one or two genuinely arresting moments -- Toby Clements Daily Telegraph * Dan Rhodes's heavily quirky, warmly improbable feel-good novel is romantic and satirical by turns, with a serious, sentimental core -- Phil Baker Sunday Times * This is Life is a charming and warm-hearted book, full of dark paradoxes and witty ideas and sexual jokes and people you would like to spend time with Observer * Rhodes is sharp, witty and endlessly clever, and, as the plot deftly side-steps from the ridiculous to the sublime and back, there's little that isn't charming along the way Irish Times * This is Life is sharp, satirical, heart-warming, a times silly, knowing and hugely enjoyable -- Doug Johnstone Big Issue * Rhodes is a masterful storyteller and this brims with the warmth of a writer in love with his characters. His comic timing is impeccable and his ability to create hilariously up-ended set pieces is unsurpassable. Dan Rhodes may just be the funniest author writing today Booktrust * It's certainly Rhodes's most accessible novel yet, it is wholly charming and manages to make some serious points about art, and what it's for, as well Sunday Herald * Rhodes carries off the more improbable moments with wit and joie de vivre -- Emma Hagestadt Independent