Bill Clegg

Bill Clegg est un jeune et talentueux agent littéraire à New York. Ce livre est le récit de sa descente dans lenfer du crack en même temps que la mise au jour dune fêlure denfance. Un récit autobiogr

From the New York Times bestselling, Booker-longlisted author of Did You Ever Have a FamilyFabulously rich and compelling Daily Mail Following his acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Did You Ever Have a Family, Bill Clegg returns with a profoundly moving, emotionally resonant second novel about the complicated bonds and breaking points of family and friendship. The End of the Day is an exploration of class and power, the corrosive force of secrets, the heartbeat of longing, and the redemption found in forgiveness.A retired widow in rural Connecticut wakes to an unexpected visit from her childhood best friend whom she hasnt seen in forty-nine years. A man arrives at a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania hotel to introduce his estranged father to his newborn daughter and finds him collapsed on the floor of the lobby.A sixty-seven-year-old taxi driver in Kauai receives a phone call from the mainland that jars her back to a traumatic past. These seemingly disconnected lives come together as half-century-old secrets begin to surface. Deeply observed and beautifully written in Bill Cleggs signature eloquent, elegant voice (Entertainment Weekly), the novel is a feat

El dia abans que la seva fi lla es casi, la June ha convidat tota la família a casa. Tots shan reunit per acabar els darrers preparatius: fl ors, càtering, vestit… La June surt un moment al jardí de

Bill Clegg est un jeune et talentueux agent littéraire à New York. Ce livre est le récit de sa descente dans lenfer du crack en même temps que la mise au jour dune fêlure denfance. Un récit autobiogr

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, MAN BOOKER PRIZE, PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE, AND ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE AN ALA NOTABLE BOOKHailed as masterly by The New York Times Book Review, a brilliantly constructed debut set in the aftermath of catastrophic loss (2015 Man Booker Prize Judges).The stunning debut novel from bestselling author Bill Clegg is a magnificently powerful story about a circle of people who find solace in the least likely of places as they cope with a horrific tragedy.On the eve of her daughters wedding, June Reids life is upended when a shocking disaster takes the lives of her daughter, her daughters fiance, her ex-husband, and her boyfriend, Lukeher entire family, all gone in a moment. June is the only survivor.Alone and directionless, June drives across the country, away from her small Connecticut town. In her wake, a community emerges, weaving a beautiful and surprising web of connections through shared heartbreak.From the couple running a motel on the Pacific Ocean where June eventually settles into a quiet half-life, to the weddings caterer whose bill has been forgotten, to Lukes mother, the shattered outcast of the towneveryone touched by the tragedy is changed as truths about their near and far histories finally come to light.Elegant and heartrending, and one of the most accomplished fiction debuts of the year, Did You Ever Have a Family is an absorbing, unforgettable tale that reveals humanity at its best through forgiveness and hope. At its core is a celebration of familythe ones we are born with and the ones we create.

Following his acclaimed New York Times bestseller Did You Ever Have a Family, Bill Clegg returns with a delicate, deeply observed, and deftly crafted (Nickolas Butler, author of Shotgun Lovesongs) second novel about the complicated bonds and breaking points of friendship, the corrosive forces of secrets, the heartbeat of longing, and the redemption found in forgiveness.A retired widow in rural Connecticut wakes to an unexpected visit from her childhood best friend whom she hasnt seen in forty-nine years.A man arrives at a Pennsylvania hotel to introduce his estranged father to his newborn daughter and finds him collapsed on the floor of the lobby.A sixty-seven-year-old taxi driver in Kauai receives a phone call from the mainland that jars her back to a traumatic past.These seemingly disconnected lives come together as half-century-old secrets begin to surface. It is in this moment that Bill Clegg reminds us how choicesto connect, to betray, to protectbecome our legacy.Written in lyrical, beautiful prose that makes even waking up seem like a poetic event (Good Morning America), this novel is a feat of storytelling, capturing sixty years within the framework of one fateful day.

A writer with a profound comprehension of emotional destruction, loss and redemptionSunday TimesA retired widowin rural Connecticut wakes to an unexpected visit from her childhood best friend whom she hasnt seen in forty-nine years. A man arrives at a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania hotel to introduce his estranged father to his newborn daughter and finds him collapsed on the floor of the lobby.A sixty-seven-year-old taxi driver in Kauai receives a phone call from the mainland that jars her back to a traumatic past. These seemingly disconnected lives come together as half-century-old secrets begin to surface over the course of one fateful day...

Un charmant village du Connecticut, non loin de New York. Un immense manoir. Deux jeunes filles tres proches, Dana et Jackie, lune riche, lautre pas. Un secret menant a un autre puis a un autre, pulverisant relations amicales, amoureuses et familiales. Cinquante ans plus tard, les anciennes amies sont toujours brouillees. Leur sante decline quotidiennement. Lheure de la reconciliation semble venue. Mais peuvent-elles encore pardonner ?Peuvent-elles meme avouer ce quelles ont si longtemps etouffe ?Dans son deuxieme roman, Bill Clegg entremele habilement, le temps dune seule journee, dissimulations, trahisons et revelations. Il traite des liens complexes de lamitie et de ses points de rupture, du desir, de lechec et de la redemption.

Il en faut peu pour détruire une vie. Un mensonge, une maladie, un accident… En une nuit, un incendie a tout enlevé à June : sa fille Lolly, qui allait se marier le lendemain ; Will, son futur gendre

This book of dark secrets opens with a blaze. On the morning of her daughters wedding, June Reids house goes up in flames, destroying her entire family her present, her past and her future. Fleeing from the carnage, stricken and alone, June finds herself in a motel room by the ocean, hundreds of miles from her Connecticut home, held captive by memories and the mistakes she has made with her only child, Lolly, and her partner, Luke. In the turbulence of grief and gossip left in Junes wake we slowly make sense of the unimaginable. The novel is a gathering of voices, and each testimony has a new revelation about what led to the catastrophe Lukes alienated mother Lydia, the watchful motel owners, their cleaner Cissy, the teenage pothead who lives nearby everyone touched by the tragedy finds themselves caught in the undertow, as their secret histories finally come to light.Lit by the clarity of understanding that true sadness brings, Did You Ever Have a Family is an elegant, unforgettable story that reveals humanity at its worst and best, through loss and love, fracture and forgiveness. At the books heart is the idea of family the ones we are born with and the ones we create and the desire, in the face of everything, to go on living.

This brutally honest memoir explores one mans journey through life and the secrets, shame, and trauma that his addiction revealed. Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and loving friends when he walked away from his world and embarked on a two-month crack binge. He had been released from rehab nine months earlier, and his relapse would cost him his home, his money, his career, and very nearly his life. What is it that leads an exceptional young mind want to disappear? Clegg makes stunningly clear the attraction of the drug that had him in its thrall, capturing in scene after scene the drama, tension, and paranoiac nightmare of a secret lifeand the exhilarating bliss that came again and again until it was eclipsed almost entirely by doom. He also explores the shape of addiction, how its patternnot its causecan be traced to the past.Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man is an utterly compelling narrativelyrical, irresistible, harsh, honest, and beautifully writtenfrom which you simply cannot look away.

Todos queremos triunfar, pero también se puede morir de éxito. Bill Clegg es un agente literario de carrera fulgurante que en los primeros años de 2000 disfrutó de un éxito renombrado en el mundo editorial.Bill Clegg acaba de independizarse para poner en marcha su propia oficina como prometedor agente literario, tiene una pareja que le quiere, un circulo de relaciones envidiable y buenos amigos cuando emprende un viaje al infierno que durara varios meses y que le arrastrara a la ruina economica, social y personal. A pesar de haber pasado poco antes por rehabilitacion para tratar una adiccion al crack que empezo en su adolescencia, no puede evitar una brutal recaida que le costara su casa, su dinero, su carrera y casi su vida.¿Que lleva a un joven con un futuro excepcional a decidir abandonar todo lo que ha conseguido? Bill Clegg muestra claramente como esta atraccion por las drogas lo esclaviza y lo sume en una espiral de consumo cada vez mas imperioso, sexo apremiante y abandono de si mismo, capturando escena tras escena el drama, la tension, y la paranoia de una doble vida. Los destellos momentaneos de excitacion y felicidad que le proporcionaban las drogas, son eclipsados despues por la pesadilla de la abstinencia. Ademas, el relato explora las causas de su adiccion, como el origen de su conducta se remonta al pasado.Retrato de un joven adicto a todo es una novela autobiografica, contada en primera persona y totalmente convincente -lirica, irresistible, sincera, dura, y muy bien escrita- que no dejara indiferente a ningun lector.La critica ha dicho...Bill Clegg, un agente literario de exito, parecia el hombre perfecto. Hasta que ya no pudo ocultar mas sus vicios. Lo cuenta en un libro que ha conmocionado a la elite neoyorquina.El PaisUna mirada desgarradora y completamente absorbente a las ruinas de la adiccion a la cocaina.BooklistClegg relata el glamour y el patetismo de la autodestruccion con eficacia y una perturbadora claridad.DetailsEstamemoir de la caida de Clegg tiene un ritmo y una moderacion perfectamente logrados y combina un detallismo muy realista con la emocion justa para turbar y absorber al lector. [...] Adictiva y poderosa.The IndependentBill Clegg ha escrito una memoir muy dinamica, espeluznante y de alta presion.Vanity FairSu fascinante memoir es un retrato de como conseguirlo todo y perderlo. [...] Es un libro elegante que muestra una admirable compostura ante un comportamiento extremo, incluso patologico.Vogue

Una novela literaria adictiva; un oscuro relato sobre secretos familiares con destellos de luz y de esperanza.La noche antes de la boda de su hija, la vida de June Reid queda devastada cuando una explosion se lleva la vida de su hija, el prometido de esta, su exmarido y su novio.Toda su familia muere en un segundo, y ella es la unica superviviente. Sola y sin direccion, June conduce a traves del pais, lejos de su pequeño pueblo de Connecticut.Poco a poco, ira tejiendo lazos hermosos y sorprendentes con gente con quien comparte el corazon roto. Elegante y desgarradora, ¿Has tenido familia alguna vez? es una novela inolvidable que revela lo mejor de la humanidad a traves del perdon y la esperanza. Una celebracion de la familia, aquella que tenemos al nacer y la que elegimos, y del deseo por encima de todo de seguir viviendo.

Una novel·la trista i emocionant que parla de la tragèdia de perdre-ho tot. Però també de la capacitat de tirar endavant, de perdonar, de seguir vivint i estimant.El dia abans que la seva fi lla es c

What makes one of the most gifted, charismatic and successful literary agents in New York fall into full-blown crack-addiction: a collapse that would cost him his business, his home, many of his friends and - very nearly - his life?In his utterly compulsive narrative, Bill Clegg leads us through the grimiest back-rooms of Manhattans underbelly, through scenes of blank-eyed sex and squalor, into the febrile paranoia of a mind gone out of control.

The goal is ninety: just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg to lose everything. With seventy-three days in rehab behind him he returns to New York and attends two or three meetings each day. It is in these refuges that he befriends essential allies including the seemingly unshakably sober Asa, and Polly, who struggles daily with her own cycle of recovery and relapse. At first, the support is not enough: Clegg relapses for the first time with only three days left, turning his calendar back to day one. Written with uncompromised immediacy, Ninety Days begins where Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man ends - and tells the wrenching story of Bill Cleggs battle to reclaim his life. As any recovering addict knows, hitting rock bottom is just the beginning.