Crow Lake: FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF A TOWN CALLED SOLACE - Softcover

Lawson, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099429322 ISBN 13: 9780099429326

Verlag: Vintage, 2003

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Críticas:

"Beautifully written, carefully balanced, Mary Lawson constructs a history of sacrifice, emotional isolation and family love without sounding a false note" (Daily Mail)

"Full of blossoming insights and emotional acuity...a compelling and serious page-turner" (Observer)

"Lawson's evocative storytelling...knows just how to draw the reader on...this is a novel of disappointed hopes and self-delusion, but it has a feel-good finish. Move over Lake Wobegon" (Spectator)

"A novel of a darkly unpredictable and compelling kind. It is a wise book" (Financial Times)

Reseña del editor:

Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so compelling, and with an emotional charge so perfectly controlled, that you sense at once that this is the real thing - a literary experience to relish, a book to lose yourself in, and a name to watch.

Here is a gorgeous, slowburning story of families growing up and tearing each other apart in rural Northern Ontario, where tragedy and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. Centre stage are the Morrisons whose tragedy is insidious and divisive. Orphaned young, Kate Morrison was her older brother Matt's protegee, her curious fascination for pond-life fed by his passionate interest in the natural world. Now a zoologist, she can identify organisms under a microscope, but seems blind to the tragedy of her own emotional life. She thinks she's outgrown her family, who were once her entire world - but she can't seem to outgrow her childhood or lighten the weight of their mutual past.

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0099429322
• ISBN 13: 9780099429326
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352