Un resoconto brillantemente realizzato del più famoso scavo archeologico della storia britannica, ora un importante film con Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan e Lily James. 'Squisitamente originale' Ian MacEwan 'Un'avvincente storia di amore e perdita' Robert Harris Nella lunga e calda estate del 1939 la Gran Bretagna si prepara alla guerra. Ma in una fattoria lungo il fiume nel Suffolk c'è un'eccitazione di altro tipo: la signora Pretty, la contadina vedova, ha avuto la sua intuizione dimostrata corretta che gli strani tumuli sulla sua terra nascondono un tesoro nascosto. Mentre lo scavo procede sullo sfondo di una crescente ansia nazionale, diventa chiaro che questa non è una scoperta ordinaria. La ricreazione di John Preston dello scavo di Sutton Hoo, la più grande scoperta anglosassone mai realizzata in Gran Bretagna, drammatizza in modo brillante e comico tre mesi di intensa attività in cui la gente del posto ha combattuto gli estranei, i professionisti hanno ostacolato i dilettanti e l'amore e la rivalità hanno prosperato in egual misura. 'Un racconto di rivalità, perdita e amore contrastato così avvincente che un giorno l'ho letto fino all'ora di pranzo, e non capita spesso che mi perda un pasto' Nigella Lawson 'Una delicata evocazione di un'epoca scomparsa' Sunday Times.
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John Preston is a former Arts Editor of the Evening Standard and the Sunday Telegraph. For ten years he was the Sunday Telegraph's television critic and one of its chief feature writers. His novel, The Dig, based on the 1939 archaeological excavation at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, has been filmed starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James. His first nonfiction book, A Very English Scandal, was published to great acclaim in 2016 and turned into BAFTA-winning BBC drama series. His latest book Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell was published to great acclaim in February 2021. It has been shortlisted for both the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Costa Biography Prize and is being adapted for television by Working Title productions.
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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A brilliantly realised account of the most famous archeological dig in British history, now a major motion picture starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James. 'Exquisitely original' Ian MacEwan 'An enthralling story of love and loss' Robert Harris In the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Pretty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the strange mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds against a background of mounting national anxiety, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary find. John Preston's recreation of the Sutton Hoo dig - the greatest Anglo-Saxon discovery ever in Britain - brilliantly and comically dramatizes three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivalry flourished in equal measure. 'A tale of rivalry, loss and thwarted love so absorbing that I read right through lunchtime one day, and it's not often I miss a meal' Nigella Lawson 'A delicate evocation of a vanished era' Sunday Times. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Codice articolo GOR011168710
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