Dear Thief - Brossura

Harvey, Samantha

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099597667 ISBN 13: 9780099597667

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2015

Riassunto

Shortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
Longlisted for the 2015 Jerwood Prize

In the middle of a winter’s night, a woman wraps herself in a blanket, picks up a pen and starts writing to an estranged friend. In answer to a question you asked a long time ago, she writes, and so begins a letter that calls up a shared past both women have preferred to forget.

Without knowing if her friend, Butterfly, is even alive or dead, she writes night after night – a letter of friendship that turns into something more revealing and recriminating. By turns a belated outlet of rage, an act of self-defence, and an offering of forgiveness, the letter revisits a betrayal that happened a decade and a half before, and dissects what is left of a friendship caught between the forces of hatred and love.

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Recensione:

"A glorious, sensuous, grown-up novel, intelligent and passionate." (Tessa Hadley)

"Harvey has struck gold... Perhaps because it is so intimate, so honest, so raw, Dear Thief provokes you to think about life, and Life, and your own life." (Claire Kilroy Guardian)

"Beautiful... Exhilarating... Remarkable" (James Wood New Yorker)

"Compassionate, matter-of-fact and mysterious about death and its ultimate transforming... Harvey offers an incandescent vision of hope and acceptance." (Catherine Taylor Sunday Telegraph)

"A quiet, unusual book, full of sad truths. I loved this epistolary novel of friendship, betrayal and forgiveness." (Paula Hawkins, author of THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN Guardian)

"Harvey’s writing is stunning: an effortless spool that winds back the layers... Brilliant." (Kate Saunders The Times)

"Singular and haunting." (Stephanie Cross Daily Mail)

Descrizione del libro:

A novel about female friendship, betrayal and imagination from the prize-winning author of The Wilderness and All is Song

Shortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
Longlisted for the 2015 Jerwood Prize

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0099597667
• ISBN 13: 9780099597667
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272