Larchfield: Polly Clark - Softcover

Clark, Polly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786481936 ISBN 13: 9781786481931

Verlag: Hachette Collections, 2017

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Críticas:

Larchfield is that rarest of rare first novels - a book that actually achieves its great ambition. I found it so immensely readable; it's brainy, verbally acute and knowing, with an ingenious literary historical premise that it impressively (and artfully) carries off right in front of your eyes. It's work of considerable talent (Richard Ford)

This is a mysterious, wondrous, captivating book (Louis de Bernieres)

A story beautifully and passionately rendered (Margie Orford)

Wonderful characters and set pieces (Di Speirs)

The sense of danger hanging over the characters kept me reading until past midnight (Marina Lewycka)

A deft and moving portrayal of isolation (Juliet Mushens)

Reseña del editor:

It's 1930 and an awkward and brilliant young man of twenty-four arrives to teach at a crumbling prep school in Helensburgh, a seaside town in the west of Scotland. The young man is W.H. Auden and the next two years will transform and torment him in equal measure.

It's 2008 and a woman poet, Dora Fielding, arrives into Helensburgh, newly married and pregnant. She is excited about the prospect of a new life that combines motherhood and creativity, but finds the reality of small town life suffocating and, eventually, terrifying.

The human need for connection drives these two brave and vulnerable outsiders to find each other and make a reality of their own that will save them both. Larchfield is about the ability of the human imagination to transcend terrible circumstances.

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• Verlag: Hachette Collections
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1786481936
• ISBN 13: 9781786481931
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368