Harriet Said...: A Virago Modern Classic (Virago Modern Classics) - Softcover

Bainbridge, Beryl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184408860X ISBN 13: 9781844088607

Verlag: Little, Brown, 1900

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Críticas:

An extremely original and disconcerting story (Daily Telegraph)

A sharp, chilling novel . . . The ending has real shock effect (Sunday Times)

Compelling, horrifying, dramatic . . . [a] Molotov cocktail of teenage insecurity and dangerously partial understanding of maturity (Evening Standard)

Reseña del editor:

A girl returns from boarding school to her sleepy Merseyside hometown and waits to be reunited with her childhood friend, Harriet, chief architect of all their past mischief. She roams listlessly along the shoreline and the woods still pitted with wartime trenches, and encounters 'the Tsar' - almost old, unhappily married, both dangerously fascinating and repulsive.

Pretty, malevolent Harriet finally arrives - and over the course of the long holidays draws her friend into a scheme to beguile then humiliate the Tsar, with disastrous, shocking consequences. A gripping portrayal of adolescent transgression, Beryl Bainbridge's classic first novel remains as subversive today as when it was written.

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• Verlag: Little, Brown
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1900
• ISBN 10: 184408860X
• ISBN 13: 9781844088607
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160