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Happy Little Bluebirds

Autor Louise Levene
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 mar 2019
'A whip-smart comedy, chock-full with glamour, secret agents and sun-drenched Californian orange groves - seriously, what could be more heavenly?' SagaIt is September 1940 and Evelyn Murdoch, a translator from the Postal Censorship department, is uprooted from her home in wartime Woking and transferred to Hollywood. She is to assist a mysterious British agent in his attempts to outwit the Los Angeles German delegation and boost the British propaganda war effort.The unhappy young widow is supplied with a new Californian wardrobe, a Bel Air bungalow and her own desk in the writers' block of Miracle Studios.At first bewildered by the glamorous excesses of this strange new world, she is gradually seduced by the sunlight, orange groves and clever, fast-talking men. But, just as she begins to blossom, her new technicolor ending threatens to slip from her grasp.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408878798
ISBN-10: 1408878798
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Perfect for fans of Muriel Spark and Barbara Pym, this acerbic and witty novel is a cross between The Girls of Slender Means and Hail, Caesar! from the Coen brothers

Notă biografică

Louise Levene is the author of A Vision of Loveliness, a BBC Book at Bedtime, which was also longlisted for the Desmond Elliott First Novel prize, Ghastly Business and The Following Girls. She is the dance critic of the Financial Times and writes for the Spectator. She has also been an advertising copywriter, a window dresser, a radio presenter, an office cleaner, a crossword editor, a university tutor, a college professor and a saleslady. Louise Levene lives in London.

Recenzii

For the perfect piece of Bank Holiday escapism, look no further . A whip-smart comedy, chock-full with glamour, secret agents and sun-drenched Californian orange groves - seriously, what could be more heavenly?
Levene is a zesty storyteller and a master of the needle-sharp one-liner
She writes with such energy and panache
Levene has a pitch-perfect ear for dialogue
Levene's sharply observed comedy mixes affectionate satire of the stylistic oddities of the time with an invigorating sparkle of real dislike for authority
A seamless knack for drawing characters that fully inhabit their historical setting
Levene is a gifted writer with a cinematic way with words