Us David Nicholls

Us
DAVID NICHOLLS
By:
Amagoia Muxika
Aitziber Martinez
Nagore Morales
Mónica Ortiz de Cosca
Inma Ortega
BACKGROUND
• David Alan Nicholls borned in 30 November 1966
• English novelist and screenwriter
• Is the middle of three siblings
• He attended Barton Peveril sixth-form college at Eastleigh, Hampshire, from 1983 to 1985
(taking A-levels in Drama and Theatre Studies along with English, Physics and Biology),
and playing a wide range of roles in college drama productions
• He went to Bristol University in the 1980s (graduating with a BA in Drama and English in
1988[3]) before training as an actor at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New
York
• Throughout his 20s, worked as a professional actor using the stage name David Holdaway
• He struggled as an actor and has said "I’d committed myself to a profession for which I
lacked not just talent and charisma, but the most basic of skills
WRITING CAREER
NOVELS
• Starter for Ten (2003)

• The Understudy (2005)
• One day (2009)
• Us (2014)
THEATRE
• In 2005 he wrote Aftersun
SCREENWRITING
• As a screenwriter, he co-wrote the adapted screenplay of Simpatico and contributed four scripts
to the third series of Cold Feet (both 2000)
• He wrote a screen adaptation of his novel, One Day, which was made into a film starring Anne
Hathaway and Jim Sturgess
AWARDS AND HONOURS
• 2014 National Book Awards "UK Author of the Year" winner for Us
• 2010 Galaxy Book of the Year Award for One Day
MAIN CHARACTERS
THE PETERSEN
DOUGLAS
ALBIE
CONNIE
DOUGLAS TIMOTHY PETERSEN
• Narrator
• Doug, Dougie, Doogie, D, BigD, D-ster, Professor D.
• Biochemist
• 54 years old
• Shy
• Ocasionally petulant
• Introverted
• Practical
CONNIE MOORE
• Douglas’s wife
• Artist
• Wild
• Spontaneus
• Borderline anarchic
ALBERT SAMUEL PETERSEN
• Douglas and Connie’s son

• 17 years old
• Photographer
• Rebellious guy
• Appropiate combination of Douglas and Connie
SECOND CHARACTERS
SCIENCE SERIOUSNES
S
METICULOUSNES
PERFECTIO S
N
ORGANIZATION
STABILITY
SECOND CHARACTERS
ART FREEDOM
IMPROVISATION
CHAOS
FUNNY CREATIVITY CARELESSNESS

PLOT: THE GRAND TOUR
PARIS LOUVRE MUSÉE DÓRSAY AMSTERDAM RIJKAMUSEU VAN GOGH

M
REMBRANDT
HOUSE MUSEUM
MUNICH VENICE ACCADEMIA FLORENC MADRI REINA SOFIA

E D
ALTE PINAKOTHEK
UFFIZI PRADO BARCELONA
GALLERY
LANGUAGE
VOCABULARY DIFFICULT
SHORT CHAPTERS-> QUICKER READING
• COMPOSED WORDS:
LATE-TWENTIETH CENTURY, TOUR-DE-FORCE,COMFORTABLE-BUT-NO-FRILLS
• IDIOMS
TO MY MIND, THE THINGS I DID FOR LOVE, GENERALLY SPEAKING, I DID THE
BEST TO EXPLAIN …
• LINKERS
ALTHOUGH, EITHER WAY, CERTAINLY, MEANWHILE, …
• COMPARATIVE CLAUSES: AS …AS
• INVERSIONS
COULD HE NOT STUDY
• A LOT OF CONTRACTIONS (INFORMAL LANGUAGE)
• SOME VERBS APPEAR EMPHASIZE

DID SEE, DID ENJOY
OPINION
• I have to admit that I adore reading. So it is supposed to be easier, at least for me, to read a book, but naturally
it depends on the book. At night and with a pencil to underline is not pleasant.
• “Us” has been a challenge for me. IIt´s true that I had chosen the book because it seems easy to read, a kind of
story not very complicated. And also I loved the cover (red) like a chocolates box. But inside has many mix
and the chocolates were not all sweet.
• What I like most about the book is that it could be the story of anyone that we know, a person, a couple or a
family. In this case is a family in a special point in their relationship and they have to solve the situation.
• During the holiday Douglas thinks deeply on the incidents in their past life together to undestand how things
went wrong in his relationship with his wife. Holiday is the equivalent to the travel in life. There is something
funny about holidaying relatives that makes for good comic fiction that I loved.
• On the other hand, the story has a lot of flashbacks and this can become arduous because the rhythm can
become monotonous at times. But in general, I would recommend it because it is in some ways quite a gentle
book, not very complicated and in some way as real as life.
• And last but not least I fell, finally, that it has met expectations. It is a book with philosophical depth amid the
entertainment.

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• Starter for Ten (2003)

AWARDS AND HONOURS

• Douglas and Connie’s son

FUNNY CREATIVITY CARELESSNESS

PARIS LOUVRE MUSÉE DÓRSAY AMSTERDAM RIJKAMUSEU VAN GOGH

MUNICH VENICE ACCADEMIA FLORENC MADRI REINA SOFIA

• A LOT OF CONTRACTIONS (INFORMAL LANGUAGE)

• SOME VERBS APPEAR EMPHASIZE

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