Heat Wave: A Novel - Brossura

Lively, Penelope

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0060928557 ISBN 13: 9780060928551

Casa editrice: Perennial, 1997

Riassunto

Fifty-five-year-old widow Pauline fears for her daughter, whose husband has allegedly developed an obsession with another woman, and finds herself forced to confront the lingering, simmering anger she still feels over the infidelity of her late husband. Reprint.

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L'autore:

Penelope Lively was born in 1933 in Cairo and spent her childhood there, moving to England in the last year of World War II. She has written many prizewinning novels and collections of short stories for both adults and children, including the novel Moon Tiger, which won England's prestigious Booker Prize in England in 1987, and most recently Heat Wave. She lives in Oxfordshire and London.

Product Description:

A quiet drama is unfolding in World's End. A two-dwelling gray stone cottage outside of London, it is home to Pauline, a 55-year-old widow, her daughter Teresa, her son-in-law Maurice, and her grandson Luke. Although on the surface this literary English family seems to be living an idyllic life, Pauline fears for her daughter, for she senses that Maurice is infatuated with another woman. As the summer draws on and the temperatures reach record levels, she finds herself forced to confront the lingering, simmering anger she still feels over the infidelity of her own late husband while watching her daughter's marriage come to an end."You don't want to part company with these characters, who, time and again, elicit a sensation of intense familiarity."

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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0060928557
• ISBN 13: 9780060928551
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224