Cantitate/Preț
Produs
Total produse
Vezi coșul
A Game of Hide and Seek de Elizabeth Taylor

A Game of Hide and Seek

Autor Elizabeth Taylor
en Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 2009
As a teenager, Harriet falls in love with Vesey and his elusive, teasing ways. When he goes to Oxford she cherishes his photograph and waits for the letter that never comes. Years pass, and with a husband and daughter, she excels at suburban respectability. But then Vesey reappears and her marriage seems to melt away. Harriet is older, it is much too late, but she still loves him.

'A Game of Hide and Seek showcases much of what makes Taylor a great novelist: piercing insight, a keen wit and a genuine sense of feeling for her characters' Elizabeth Day, Guardian

'A magnificent and underrated mid-20th-century writer, the missing link between Jane Austen and John Updike' David Baddiel, Independent

'Taylor has the genius of making her characters understood, sometimes with an almost frightening clarity, perhaps because she is compassionate as well as relentless in her delineation of them' The New York Times
Citește tot Restrânge

Toate formatele și edițiile

Toate formatele și edițiile Preț Express
Paperback (2) 4905 lei  3-5 săpt. +2529 lei  7-13 zile
  Little Brown Book Group – oct 2009 4905 lei  3-5 săpt. +2529 lei  7-13 zile
  NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – 31 ian 2012 10907 lei  3-5 săpt.

Preț: 4905 lei

Preț vechi: 6388 lei
-23% Nou

Puncte Express: 74
Preț estimativ în valută:
939€ • 976$ • 787£

Carte disponibilă

Livrare economică 20 februarie-06 martie
Livrare express 06-12 februarie pentru 3528 lei

 Adaugă în coș

Wish list
Gift list
Am citit!
Adaugă în listă
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781844086191
ISBN-10: 1844086194
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 201 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Little Brown Book Group
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Descriere

An intelligent, haunting love story, with echoes of Brief Encounter, by one of the best British writers of the 20th century.

Notă biografică

ELIZABETH TAYLOR (1912–1975) was born into a middle-class family in Berkshire, England. She held a variety of positions, including librarian and governess, before marrying a businessman in 1936. Nine years later, her first novel, At Mrs. Lippincote’s, appeared. She would go on to publish
eleven more novels, including Angel (available as an NYRB Classic), four collections of short stories (many of which originally appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and other magazines), and a children’s book, Mossy Trotter, while living with her husband and two children in Buckinghamshire. Long championed by Ivy Compton-Burnett, Barbara Pym, Robert Liddell, Kingsley Amis, and Elizabeth Jane Howard, Taylor’s novels and stories have been the basis for a number of films, including Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005), starring Joan Plowright, and François Ozon’s Angel (2007). In 2013 NYRB Classics will publish a new selection of Taylor’s short stories.

CALEB CRAIN is the author of American Sympathy, a study of friendship between men in early American literature. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and n+1. His novel Necessary Errors will be published in 2013.

Recenzii

“Taylor has the genius of making her characters understood, sometimes with an almost frightening clarity, perhaps because she is compassionate as well as relentless in her delineation of them.”
—The New York Times

“Funny, savage and full of loneliness and suppressed emotion.”
—Rachel Cooke, The Observer

“It is time that justice was done to Elizabeth Taylor. . . . All her writings could be described as coming into the category of comedy. Comedy is the best vehicle for truths that are too fierce to be borne.”
—Anita Brookner

“Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognized as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth. As a reader, I have found huge pleasure in returning to Taylor’s novels and short stories many times over. As a writer I’ve returned to her too—in awe of her achievements, and trying to work out how she does it.” —Sarah Waters