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The Scent of Dried Roses: One family and the end of English Suburbia - an elegy de Tim Lott

The Scent of Dried Roses: One family and the end of English Suburbia - an elegy: Penguin Modern Classics

Autor Tim Lott
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 iul 2009
An exploration of the author's parents' lives, his mother's inexplicable suicide in her late fifties and his own bouts of depression. It conjures up the pebble-dashed home of his childhood and the landscape of postwar suburban England. It tells a story of grief, loss and dislocation, yet also of the power of memory and the bonds of family love.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141191485
ISBN-10: 0141191481
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Tim Lott was born in 1956 in Southall, west London, the son of a Notting Hill greengrocer. In 1976, he took a job on the pop magazineSounds, and in 1980, he set up the first glossy colour pop magazine,Flexipop!He left the venture in 1983 to attend the London School of Economics and after graduating accepted the editorship of the listings magazineCity Limits. He resigned after only two weeks, and a period of acute depressive illness followed, during which his parents nursed him back to health. Shortly afterwards his mother, Jean, committed suicide.The Scent of Dried Rosesgrew from anEsquirearticle on Jean's depression and suicide, and its publication in 1996 met with universal acclaim.

Lott's novels includeWhite City Blue, winner of the 1999 Whitbread First Novel award;Rumours of a Hurricane(2002);The Love Secrets of Don Juan(2003);The Seymour Tapes(2005) and,Fearless(2007), a children's book.