Soul Tourists - Hardcover

Evaristo, Bernardine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 024114115X ISBN 13: 9780241141151

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 2005

Synopsis

The funny and fabulous tale of two twentieth-century misfits and their adventure into European history...

It is 1988, and Jessie, artiste, motormouth, ducker and diver, meets Stanley, angst-ridden banker and boffin. Jessie arrives like a guardian angel and lifts Stanley out of his soul-less life. He ditches his job, and together they set off across Europe. Destination -- unknown. Duration -- indeterminate. So begins an odyssey which turns into an adventure on the stage of European history featuring Shakespeare's "dark lady of the sonnets", Pushkin's African great-grandfather, the composer Chevalier de St. Georges and other colourful characters from Europe's past.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Fantastic reviews for Soul Tourists:

'In Soul Tourists Bernardine Evaristo has mixed poetry and prose to produce a bouncy, sometimes touching novel about the search for love and belonging...The economy of Evaristo's language as all this unfolds is impressive....(The writing) is fecund, stimulating and witty...Evaristo remains an undeniably bold and energetic writer, whose world view is anything but one-dimensional.'
The Sunday Times

'Bernardine Evaristo's dazzling Soul Tourists explores realms that that are more than usually out of the ordinary...Evaristo, radically refusing to be confined by genres, has written the story of a love affair, a road trip and a detour into hidden aspects of Europe's black history that manages to be thought-provoking, funky and funny.'
Metro

'The story is told in an inspired mixture of prose, blank verse and haiku, as it leaps energetically from interior to exterior, dialogue to monologue, containing moments of lucid imagery and sex-starved comedy.'
The Times

Evaristo revels in meshing time frames, juggling spoken and narrative registers, fusing the glaringly incompatible, and, flipping between free-style verse, prose and dramatic dialogue. The secret of her alchemical touch lies in transforming this experimentation into funky yarns so tantalising you want to devour
them.
The Guardian

‘This odyssey is a book to pack for its gypsy spirit and its summer music’.
The Independent

‘One of Britain’s most innovative writers, Bernardine Evaristo always dares to be different. Soul Tourists is a reaffirmation of her unique and stimulating style.’
New Nation (newspaper)

About the Author:

Bernardine Evaristo is the author of two novels-in-verse, LARA and THE EMPEROR'S BABE. She is a recent recipient of a NESTA Fellowship Award and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2004.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 024114115X
• ISBN 13: 9780241141151
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304