The Glass House - Rilegato

Cooke, Sophie

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ISBN 10: 0091799589 ISBN 13: 9780091799588

Casa editrice: Hutchinson, 2004

Riassunto

A story of strange loves and self-deception. Recently expelled from boarding school, 14-year-old Vanessa watches as her autocratic, glamorous mother unravels. Her friend Alan McAlpine offers an impossible comfort, one that she cannot accept. Over the course of four years in the Southern Highlands of Scotland, she tells a tale of desire and loss, power and devotion. But nothing is what it seems, and the world Vanessa has built for herself is as treacherous as glass: fragile, filled with half-truths and reflections. Vanessa's two sisters tumble around her: cocksure Lucy moving confidently away, odd little Bryony sinking deeper into the walls until she almost disappears. A skeleton key with which, perhaps, to unlock the truth. In a voice as bare and beautiful as the landscape, the darker byways of the human heart are hauntingly lit even as the glass house splinters and cracks.

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L'autore:

Sophie Cooke grew up in the wilds of Scotland, attended seven different schools and was awarded a New Writer's Bursary from the Scottish Arts Council. She was runner up for the MacAllan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Award for a story that later formed the opening pages of her debut novel The Glass House. Published to critical acclaim, The Glass House was nominated for the Orange Prize 2004 and shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year Award 2004. Sophie Cooke is the author of several short stories published in anthologies and writes for the Guardian, Observer and Sunday Times. She has worked on screenplays for independent film companies and now lives in the East Side of Edinburgh where she is writing her second novel, set in the Hebrides.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

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• Editore: Hutchinson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0091799589
• ISBN 13: 9780091799588
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288