Offcomer - Brossura

Baker, Jo

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099437791 ISBN 13: 9780099437796

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2003

Riassunto

Set in Lancashire, Oxford and Belfast, Offcomer (Lancashire dialect for an outsider) tells the story of Claire. Claire - in her own words, 'Jewish-ish' - is the daughter of a Jewish mother adopted when young by Gentiles, and a Gentile father. She is a young woman with little self-esteem, little sense of who she is and little in the way of feeling beyond her regular recourse to cutting her ankle with a razor. Offcomer tells Claire's story from Oxford University to Northern Ireland, of her disastrous relationship with a young academic and the emergence of secrets from her mother's past, to her gradual acceptance of herself as she finds a path to some level of self-esteem and self-worth. Offcomer is a truly remarkable debut, a novel of quiet and real power. (2002-10-18)

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

A moving, quietly powerful and remarkably psychologically acute examination of a troubled young woman's life and mind, in the tradition of Camilla Gibb's Mouthing the Words and Andrea Ashworth's Once in a House on Fire. (2002-10-18)

L'autore:

Born and raised in the village of Arkholme near Lancaster, Jo Baker was educated at Oxford and now lives in Belfast. (2002-10-18)

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0099437791
• ISBN 13: 9780099437796
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304