The Minotaur (OM) - Brossura

Vine, Barbara

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0141025239 ISBN 13: 9780141025230

Casa editrice: Penguin, 2006

Riassunto

A middle-aged Swedish woman remembers her strange and horrifying stay with an English family at their grand house in Essex almost forty years before, when the sixties revolution had barely reached rural England. The grown-up Cosway daughters were in thrall to their widowed mother, but it was the son John who puzzled Kerstin: why was this sad, self-absorbed figure being fed such large doses of unsuitable drugs? Then, as Kerstin began to realize what was going on, a stranger moved into the village, and his presence set the whole family on a path to self-destruction.

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L'autore:

Barbara Vine was the pen-name of Ruth Rendell, and Viking published all of her books under that name.

Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, with worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, and regular Sunday Times bestsellers.

Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.

Ruth Rendell died in May 2015.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0141025239
• ISBN 13: 9780141025230
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 464