The Last of Her Kind
Autor Sigrid Nunezen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 sep 2019
Ann Drayton and Georgette George meet as college roommates in New Yorkin 1968. Ann, who comes from a wealthy family, is brilliant and idealistic. Georgette,who has grown up in poverty, is mystified by Ann's romanticization of theunderprivileged class, which Georgette is hoping college will enable her toescape. An intense and difficult friendship is born. Years after a fight endstheir friendship, Ann is convicted of murder. As Georgette struggles tounderstand what has happened, she is led back to their shared history and to anexamination of the revolutionary era in which the two women came of age.
'A remarkableand disconcerting vision of a troubled time in American history, and of itsrepercussions for national and individual identity' New Yorker
'An unflinchingexamination of justice, race and political idealism that brings to mind PhilipRoth's American Pastoral and thetenacious intelligence of Nadine Gordimer' New York Times
'Nunez takes usbeneath the surface to the essential mysteries of the human heart' WallStreet Journal
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780349012834
ISBN-10: 0349012830
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Little Brown Book Group
ISBN-10: 0349012830
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Little Brown Book Group
Notă biografică
Sigrid Nunez is the New York Times bestselling author of The Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award, and of seven other novels, including Salvation City, The Last of Her Kind, and, most recently, What Are You Going Through. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Her books have been translated into thirty languages.
Descriere
The paths of two women from different walks of life intersect amid counterculture of the 1960s in this haunting and provocative novel from the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend