God on the Rocks
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: So charming a novel that you don't want to give away a single one of the many twists of its plot (The New York Times).Originally published in Great Britain in 1978, the novel describes Margaret Marsh's coming of age one summer between the world wars. Caught in the backwash of a fervently religious father, a mother bitterly nostalgic for what might have been, the tea and sympathy of some thoroughly secular neighbors and the bawdy jokes of her nanny Lydia, Margaret's world hurtles toward a shattering moment of truth. Drama, tragedy, and a touch of farce lend themselves to Gardam's typically eloquent prose.…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-60945-021-2
- EAN: 9781609450212
- Produktnummer: 32778981
- Verlag: Europa Editions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 195 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 557 KB
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Jane Gardam has twice won the Whitbread Award, for The Hollow Land, and Queen of the Tambourine. She is also the author of God on the Rocks, which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and most recently, Faith Fox.
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