CONCLUDING
Concluding-set in a single summer day-has at its heart old Mr. Rock, a famous retired scientist: he lives in a cottage on the grounds of a girl's boarding school. Living with him is Elizabeth, his somewhat unstrung granddaughter; his white cat; his white goose; and Daisy, his white pig. Miss Edge and Miss Baker-the two inseparable spinster harpies who run the school-scheme to dislodge him from the cottage. Concluding opens with the discovery that two of the schoolgirls have vanished in the night: searching, eavesdropping, worrying, jostling, and giggling all ensue. A love affair, a dance, that magnificent pig, small joys, and low ambitions al…
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Weitere Autoren: Welty, Eudora (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2700-1
- EAN: 9780811227001
- Produktnummer: 22541865
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H20.0 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.2 cm 284 g
- Gewicht: 284
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Henry Green (1905-1973) was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke. He was educated at Eton and Oxford and went on to become the managing director of his family's engineering business, writing nine novels in his spare time. Anthony Burgess found his books as solid and glittering as gems. He also wrote an astonishing memoir, Pack My Bag, published by New Directions.
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