Two Lives: Reading Turgenev & My House in Umbria
Autor William Trevoren Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 mai 2010
'Evocative and haunting. Trevor writes like an angel, but is determined to wring your heart'Daily Mail
'Marvellous, superb. As rich and moving as anything I have read in years. When I reach the end . . . I wanted to start right again at the beginning'Guardian
InReading Turgenevan Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man, but finds release through secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for Russian novels.
My House in Umbriatells of Emily Delahunty, a writer of romantic novels, who helps the survivors of a bomb attack on a train to convalesce, inventing colourful pasts for her patients.
Two novels, two women who retreat further into the realm of the imagination until the boundaries between what is real and what is not become blurred . . .
'One of the most beautiful and memorable things Trevor has written'Independent on Sunday
Reading Turgenevwas shortlisted for the Booker Prize
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141044613
ISBN-10: 0141044616
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141044616
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
William Trevorwas born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, and spent his childhood in provincial Ireland. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of twenty-nine books, includingFelicia’s Journey, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and was made into a motion picture, andThe Story of Lucy Gault,which was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread Fiction Prize. In 1996 he was the recipient of the Lannan Award for Fiction. In 2001, he won the Irish Times Literature Prize for fiction. Two of his books were chosen byThe New York Timesas best books of the year, and his short stories appeared regularly inThe New Yorker. In 1997, he was named Honorary Commander of the British Empire.
Recenzii
As
rich
and
moving
as
anything
I
have
read
in
years.
When
I
reached
the
end
of
both
of
these
marvellous
novels,
I
wanted
to
start
right
again
at
the
beginning
These novels will endure. And in every beautiful sentence there is not a word out of place
Inquisitive and loving. Trevor's is among the most subtle and sophisticated fiction being written today
A writer at the peak of his powers; it reminds you what good reading is all about
Reading Turgenevis one of the most beautiful and memorable things he has written. It stays in your memory -like Turgenev
He writes like an angel, but is determined to wring your heart. Trevor at his most evocative and haunting
These novels will endure. And in every beautiful sentence there is not a word out of place
Inquisitive and loving. Trevor's is among the most subtle and sophisticated fiction being written today
A writer at the peak of his powers; it reminds you what good reading is all about
Reading Turgenevis one of the most beautiful and memorable things he has written. It stays in your memory -like Turgenev
He writes like an angel, but is determined to wring your heart. Trevor at his most evocative and haunting