The Outcast: A Novel - Rilegato

Jones, Sadie

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ISBN 10: 0061374032 ISBN 13: 9780061374036

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2008

Riassunto

Neglected by his father and stepmother in the years after his mother's death, seventeen-year-old Lewis Aldridge commits an act of violence that lands him in prison and returns two years later to a community that no longer welcomes him, a situation that is complicated by secrets that are revealed during his relationship with his new boss's daughters. 50,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Riveting...A superb debut novel about repression, rebellion, and moving on...The tension in THE OUTCAST is palpable and sensuous, beating loudly beneath the tranquil surface of Jones’s calm prose, and Lewis never disappoints in his fight for an ‘after’ that is happy and shame-free.” (Elaina Richardson, O magazine)

“With her lush writing and tantalizing sense of setting and detail, Jones has written a novel that stands apart from rote imitation, and...offers the welcome promise of a literary career of originality and distinction.” (Boston Globe)

“One of the more subtle of the...hot debut novelists...this season” (New York Sun)

“An arresting story” (Washington Post Book World)

“Beautifully delicate...ever more compelling as Jones builds in a palpable sense of suspense.” (Booklist (starred review))

“A superb debut novel...Jones’s prose is fluid, and Lewis’s suffering comes across as achingly real.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))

L'autore:

Sadie Jones is the author of four novels, including The Outcast, winner of the Costa First Novel Award in Great Britain and a finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize/Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, Small Wars, and the bestselling The Uninvited Guests. She lives in London.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061374032
• ISBN 13: 9780061374036
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 347