Sacred Country
I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy. Mary's fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate, emotional yet unsentimental novel. As daring as Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Sacred Country inspires us to reconsider the essence of gender, and proposes new insights in the unraveling of that timeless malady known as the human condition. As Mary's mother, Estelle, observes, There are no whole truths, just as there is no heart of the onion. There are only the dreams of the individual mind.…
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- ISBN: 978-0-671-88609-7
- EAN: 9780671886097
- Produktnummer: 9452858
- Verlag: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B13.5 cm x D2.0 cm 283 g
- Gewicht: 283
Über den Autor
Rose Tremain is the author of seven novels, including the bestselling Restoration, which received the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award in 1989, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and was made into an Academy Award®-winning film in 1995. Sacred Country won both the James Tait Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina Etranger in France. Ms. Tremain lives in London and Norwich, England.
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