Turn Again Home - Hardcover

Birch, Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1860499724 ISBN 13: 9781860499722

Verlag: Virago, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Carol Birch

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Críticas

Sunday Times ('Turn Again Home is a highly literary novel. . . A profoundly impressive piece of work and a reminder of the vertiginous heights that "genre" can scale in the hands of someone who can actually hold a pen')

Guardian ('Tremendous pace and readability. . . It's lightness of touch exists in inverse proportion to the moral, emotional and political seriousness with which the author marshals a thousand quiet details to give these lives their complex due')

Independent ('Birch is expert at capturing the moment that shapes a character. . . Shot through with intelligent humour, Turn Again Home is clear-sighted, deft, very English and wholly believeable')

Reseña del editor

Gorton, Manchester. 1930. Greyhound racing at Belle Vue, the buses going up and down Hyde Road, the siren of Peacock's foundry going off every night at six. This is Bessie and Sam Holloway's place, home for Nell and little brother Bobby and older step-child Violet. Precious visits from Dad's sister Benny, a Queen of the music hall trailing clouds of glory and whisky, provide infrequent brushes with glamour. 'Alright for some,' grunts Bessie. Nell grows up to work in a factory and there, from the tailgate of a truck in the yard, she first hears fellow factory worker Harry Caplin play trombone break on the old jazz classic, Clarinet Marmalade. Harry's talent will take him far and introduce him to such jazz legends as Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden; but not as far as poor feckless Bobby, who finds himself fighting in the jungles of Malaya.

Spanning the twentieth century, this is story of three generations of a Manchester family.

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• Verlag: Virago
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1860499724
• ISBN 13: 9781860499722
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416