The Sea Lady - Rilegato

Drabble, Margaret

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ISBN 10: 0151012636 ISBN 13: 9780151012633

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007

Riassunto

This is the story of Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman, who spent a summer together as children in Ornemouth, a town by the gray North Sea. As they journey back to Ornemouth to receive honorary degrees from a new university there—Humphrey on the train, Ailsa flying—they take stock of their lives over the past thirty years, their careers, and their shared personal entanglements. Humphrey is a successful marine biologist, happiest under water, but now retired; Ailsa, scholar and feminist, is celebrated for her pioneering studies of gender and for her gift for lucid and dramatic exposition. The memories of their lives unfold as Margaret Drabble exquisitely details the social life in England in the second half of the last century.

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Recensione:

PRAISE FOR MARGARET DRABBLE

"Reading Margaret Drabble?s novels has become something of a rite of passage . . . Sharply observed, exquisitely companionable tales of women of a certain age and class, educated, egocentric, strong, unlucky in love."?THE WASHINGTON POST

"As meticulous as Jane Austen, and as deadly as Evelyn Waugh."?LOS ANGELES TIMES

L'autore:

MARGARET DRABBLE is the author of many novels and the editor of The Oxford Companion to English Literature. She lives in London.

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0151012636
• ISBN 13: 9780151012633
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 345