Orkney - Hardcover

Sackville, Amy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1619021196 ISBN 13: 9781619021198

Verlag: Counterpoint LLC, 2013

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Book by Sackville Amy

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Praise for "Orkney"

"Sackville writes like a dream (in all senses), conveying both the uncanny power of love and the inscrutable heartbreak of loss."--"Kirkus"

Praise for "Orkney"
"Sackville writes like a dream (in all senses), conveying both the uncanny power of love and the inscrutable heartbreak of loss."--"Kirkus"
"Sackville's novel will appeal to literature aficionados: a "Lolita"-esque love, a romance born out of academia, and folklore come to life." --"Booklist"

Praise for the U.K. edition of "Orkney"
"Sackville's second novel is poetic, dreamlike and beautifully written." --"The Times"
"Lyrical and compelling ... readers will be gripped from start to finish ... "Orkney" is entirely original. Sackville's beautiful and poignant novel reminds us of the real nature of tradition, which is not only to insist on retelling old stories, but also to remake them in our own image, for our own time ... In "Orkney" myth slips free from the dust and politesse of the library, and assumes a vivid, dangerous and unparaphraseable existence." --"Times Literary Supplement"
""Orkney" is a short, strange novel about a couple on their honeymoon. He is an ageing English professor on sabbatical. She is his star pupil ... What begins as a familiar, almost fairytale-like narrative ends as something more fragmented, unsettling, and odd ... Providing a brooding, bruised, ever-changing backdrop to all this is Orkney, the book's most compelling character of all. In a tribute to Virginia Woolf's experimental masterpiece, "The Waves," the sea in "Orkney" functions as a kind of rhythmic talisman, its ebb and flow mirrored in the actions, ideas, and themes of the book. More than anything, Sackville's "Orkney" is a breathtaking place in the most literal of senses.' --"Scotsman"
"A haunting novel set on a beautifully described remote island in Orkney ... It's like a folk ballad, full of otherworldly emotion and strange impulses." --"Marie Claire"
"A truly remarkable feat of writing ... it sets Amy Sackville up as one of the UK's most exciting new writers ... she is a genius with her turn of ph

Reseña del editor:

While honeymooning on the Orkney Islands, a barren place of extraordinary beauty, with his new wife, a woman 40 years his junior, a literature professor becomes consumed by his mysterious bride who distracts him from his life's work - a book about enchantment-narratives in literature.

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• Verlag: Counterpoint LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1619021196
• ISBN 13: 9781619021198
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 253