Crocodile Soup: A Novel - Brossura

Darling, Julia

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0060090405 ISBN 13: 9780060090401

Casa editrice: Ecco Pr, 2002

Riassunto

Thirty-year-old Gert Hardcastle finds her pursuit of her potential perfect mate, Eva, complicated by unresolved and often hilarious feelings about her childhood and her difficult family, including her twin brother and her father, who vanished in Africa. A first novel. Reprint.

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L'autore:

Julia Darling is a playwright, poet, and short-story writer. Crocodile Soup is her first novel. She lives in northern England with her two daughters.

Product Description:

Gert Hardcastle is thirty-something and unlucky in love. She is also estranged from her mother. As Crocodile Soup opens, she thinks she has found "the One" -- the enigmatic Eva, who serves coffee at the cafeteria in the museum where Gert works as a curator cataloging Egyptian artifacts. As Gert embarks on her hilarious and poignant pursuit of Eva, she looks back on her eccentric, childhood through a series of vivid and surreal flashbacks: her obsessive twin, Frank, with whom she communicates telepathically; her father, George, who vanished to Africa to salvage the family crocodile farm; her vain, neglectful mother, Jean; and the family ghost -- a Victorian poet who haunts the attic.In a narrative studded with relentless humor and giddy self-deprecation, Julia Darling introduces an endearing cast of characters whose shared and wayward search for love is irresistible.

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• Editore: Ecco Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0060090405
• ISBN 13: 9780060090401
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352