Crossing The Lines

Bragg, Melvyn

ISBN 10: 0340829672 / ISBN 13: 9780340829677

Verlag: Sceptre, 2004

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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE

THE THIRD NOVEL IN ''ONE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED LITERARY SERIES IN RECENT TIMES'' (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

''An enormously important piece of literature''
Guardian

''Richly detailed and extraordinarily poignant''
Sunday Telegraph

''Expertly told . . . a continuation of a monumental series''
The Times

Set in Britain during the 1950s, this moving and evocative novel follows the intertwined fates of people crossing boundaries in their lives. As a teenager in the small northern town of Wigton, Joe Richardson falls in love with Rachel, just when her life is about to be uprooted. While his parents, Sam and Ellen, face the frontiers of middle age, Joe finds himself drawn by the intoxicating world outside home, and swept into situations that seem beyond his control.
Vividly conveying the spirit of the mid-century and the profound social changes taking place at the time, this is a masterly successor to the award-winning The Soldier''s Return and A Son of War.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Melvyn Bragg is a writer and broadcaster whose first novel, For Want of a Nail, was published in 1965. His novels since include The Maid of Buttermere, The Soldier's Return, A Son of War, Credo and Now is the Time, which won the Parliamentary Book Award for fiction in 2016. His books have also been awarded the Time/Life Silver Pen Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the WHSmith Literary Award, and have been longlisted three times for the Booker Prize (including the Lost Man Booker Prize).
He has also written several works of non-fiction, including The Adventure of English and The Book of Books about the King James Bible.
He lives in London and Cumbria.

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Titel: Crossing The Lines
Verlag: Sceptre
Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Used; Good