Testimonies: A Novel
A welcome reissue of O'Brian's moving and very fine first novel.—Kirkus ReviewsDelmore Schwartz, the most influential critic in postwar America, wrote of Patrick O'Brian's first novel Testimonies: A triumph...drawn forward by lyric eloquence and the story's fascination, [the reader] discovers in the end that he has encountered in a new way the sphinx and the riddle of existence itself. Schwartz' imagination was fired by this sinister tale of love and death set in Wales, a timeless story with echoes of Thomas Hardy and Mary Webb.Joseph Pugh, sick of Oxford and of teaching, decides to take some time off to live in a wild and beautiful Welsh far…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-34443-1
- EAN: 9780393344431
- Produktnummer: 34246791
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'275 KB
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One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O'Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso.
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