Moon Tiger
Autor Penelope Livelyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 oct 2024
Claudia Hampton, a beautiful, famous writer, lies dying in hospital. But, as the nurses tend to her with quiet condescension, she is plotting her greatest work: 'a history of the world ... and in the process, my own'. Gradually she re-creates the rich mosaic of her life and times, conjuring up those she has known. There is Gordon, her adored brother; Jasper, the charming, untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool, conventional daughter; and Tom, her one great love, both found and lost in wartime Egypt. Penelope Lively's Booker Prize-winning novel weaves an exquisite mesh of memories, flashbacks and shifting voices, in a haunting story of loss and desire.
Penelope Lively (b. 1933) was born in Cairo. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize; once in 1977 for her first novel,The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 forAccording to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novelMoon Tiger. Her novels includePassing On,City of the Mind,Cleopatra's SisterandHeat Wave, and many are published by Penguin.
If you enjoyedMoon Tiger, you might like L.P. Hartley'sThe Go-Between,also available in Penguin Modern Classics.
'It's a fine, intelligent piece of work, the kind that Leaves its traces in the air long after you've put it away'
Anne Tyler
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781405967006
ISBN-10: 1405967005
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 128 x 195 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
ISBN-10: 1405967005
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 128 x 195 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Notă biografică
Penelope
Lively
is
the
author
of
many
prize-winning
novels
and
short-story
collections
for
both
adults
and
children.
She
has
twice
been
shortlisted
for
the
Booker
Prize:
once
in
1977
for
her
first
novel,The
Road
to
Lichfield,
and
again
in
1984
forAccording
to
Mark.
She
later
won
the
1987
Booker
Prize
for
her
highly
acclaimed
novelMoon
Tiger.
Her
other
books
includeGoing
Back;Judgement
Day;Next
to
Nature,
Art;Perfect
Happiness;Passing
On;City
of
the
Mind;Cleopatra's
Sister;Heat
Wave;Beyond
the
Blue
Mountains,
a
collection
of
short
stories;Oleander,
Jacaranda,
a
memoir
of
her
childhood
days
in
Egypt;Spiderweb;
her
autobiographical
work,A
House
Unlocked;The
Photograph;Making
It
Up;Consequences;Family
Album,
which
was
shortlisted
for
the
2009
Costa
Novel
Award,
andHow
It
All
Began.
She
is
a
popular
writer
for
children
and
has
won
both
the
Carnegie
Medal
and
the
Whitbread
Award.
She
was
appointed
CBE
in
the
2001
New
Year's
Honours
List,
and
DBE
in
2012.
Penelope
Lively
lives
in
London.
Recenzii
“A powerful, moving and beautifully wrought novel about the ways in which lives are molded by personal memory and the collective past.” —Boston Globe
“Emotionally, Moon Tiger is kaleidoscopic, deeply satisfying. The all too brief encounter between Claudia and Tom will surely rate as one of the most memorable of contemporary fictional affairs. This is one of the best novels I have read for years.” —The London Sunday Telegraph
“It pulls us in; it engages us and saddens us. It is also unexpectedly funny . . . It leaves its traces in the air long after you’ve put it away.” —The New York Times Book Review
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The last thoughts of a dying writer are captured in this intelligent novel by Booker Prize-winner Penelope Lively. The moving and poignant story of life as a writer, historian, and mother ends as a saga of unfufilled love.
The last thoughts of a dying writer are captured in this intelligent novel by Booker Prize-winner Penelope Lively. The moving and poignant story of life as a writer, historian, and mother ends as a saga of unfufilled love.