The Hide - Hardcover

Unsworth, Barry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393039552 ISBN 13: 9780393039559

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 1996

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Book by Unsworth Barry

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Bristling with menace, The Hide is a superbly modulated study of the blighting of an innocent.--Anthony Quinn [A] black comedy about the quintessentially human act of observation. . . . Caustic and hilarious.--Drew Limsky

Reseña del editor:

This early work by the Booker Prize-winning author Barry Unsworth chronicles one of his literary obsessions the corruption of innocence and forms it into a compelling contemporary narrative set in the rambling, overgrown grounds of an English estate. There, relying on his rich sister Audrey's beneficence, Simon obsessively digs a secret system of tunnels from which to spy on others. When Josh, a good-looking na f, becomes a gardener at Audrey's home, the two women of the household, Audrey and her distant relative and housekeeper, Marion, find Josh's strength and seeming innocence a potent spell, and his response escalates unacknowledged tensions between them. Meanwhile, Simon, worried about Josh, takes steps to prevent the exposure of his underground labyrinth. The explosive chemistry between the characters will eventually rip apart and rearrange all their lives.

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• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0393039552
• ISBN 13: 9780393039559
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192