On Green Dolphin Street - Brossura

Faulks, Sebastian

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ISBN 10: 0091793505 ISBN 13: 9780091793500

Casa editrice: Hutchinson, 2001

Riassunto

America, 1959. With two young children she adores, loving parents back in London, and an admired husband, Charlie, working at the British embassy in Washington, the world seems an effervescent place of parties, jazz and family happiness to Mary van der Linden. But the Eisenhower years are ending, and 1960 brings the presidential battle between two ambitious senators: John Kennedy and Richard Nixon. An American newspaper reporter called Frank Renzo dramatically enters the van der Lindens' lives, and through him Mary is forced to confront the terror of the Cold War that is the dark background of their carefree existence. In New York, Mary finds a transfiguring personal happiness, yet ghosts of America's recent past - of McCarthy, the war in the Pacific, the struggle in Indochina, exert a subtle, disorientating pressure on the lives of all the characters. In tone and setting, On Green Dolphin Street is a new departure for Faulks, yet readers will recognise the intensely close focus of the characterisation, the wide historical perspective in which it is set, and the gathering emotional power of the narrative. This is partly a love story, partly a novel about America, across whose great landscape it moves; more particularly, it tells of a solitary woman and her exhilarating attempt to face down death.

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Recensione:

"The best novelist of his generation." -- Allan Massie, Scotsman

Praise for Birdsong:
“A lyrical masterpiece.” – The Edmonton Journal

“Ambitious, outrageous, poignant, sleep-disturbing, Birdsong is not a perfect novel - just a great one.” – Simon Schama, The New Yorker

Of The Fatal Englishman:
“Superb... This is biography written with that revealing sense of the moment which marks good fiction... A mystery story of rare narrative power.” – Financial Times

“Wildly exciting... it’s a classic.” – David Hare, Spectator

L'autore:

Sebastian Faulks was born in 1953. His novels include the trilogy, The Girl at the Lion d’Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray. His other books include A Fool’s Alphabet and the acclaimed triple-biography, The Fatal Englishman. After a period in France, he and his family now live in London.

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• Editore: Hutchinson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0091793505
• ISBN 13: 9780091793500
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 356