The Dress Lodger - Brossura

Holman, Sheri

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0340717831 ISBN 13: 9780340717837

Casa editrice: Sceptre, 1999

Riassunto

Sunderland, 1832. Gustine, a 16 year-old prostitute, is busy earning a living to keep her baby fed. Her baby was born with its heart on the outside of its body, so when she meets a doctor who specializes in anatomy, she resolves to help him find dead bodies to practice on, if he will help her.

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Sheri Holman vividly and convincingly conjures a fully-textured fictive past peopled with strange and true characters (Charles Frazier)

'Sheri Holman vividly and convincingly conjures a fully-textured fictive past peopled with strange and true characters' - Charles Frazier

I found it a riveting read, thoroughly enjoyable. From the first page I felt confident that I was in the hands of a real writer with an individual voice - literate, witty, intelligent, thoughtful (Kate Atkinson)

'A Southern Gothic imagination applied to graveyard horrors in the anatomy schools of nineteenth century England in the grip of the worst cholera epidemic in history. Sheri Holman writes with extraordinary assurance and style' - Miranda Seymour

Sheri Holman writes with extraordinary assurance and style (Miranda Seymour)

'Quite Dickensian, in the best sense . . . the vigour of the style - tremendous, confident pace (I always like a novel where one know the writer is tightly in charge of the reins) is matched by a knowledge of the period and its concerns which seems to come from within. By half way I was quite enthralled . . . This is one of those historical novels which as a passionate, angry feel to it, making it more than entertainment (though it is certainly entertaining.) It bothers to get right not just the detail of clothes/food/place but the tempo of the times - that is a very difficult thing to pull off' - Margaret Forster

'I found it a riveting read, thoroughly enjoyable. From the first page I felt confident that I was in the hands of a real writer with an individual voice - literate, witty, intelligent, thoughtful - I still don't understand how she grew up in " rural Virginia" and wrote this book' - Kate Atkinson

Dickensian, in the best sense . . . tremendous, confident pace is matched by a knowledge of the period and its concerns (Margaret Forster)

Sheri Holman's prose, tart, racy and sombre, will sing in your soul a long while (Frank McCourt)

'As with all the best fictional history, Sheri Holman's atmospheric, miasmic tale of cholera-struck Sunderland in 1831 is based on fact . . . With mordant Dickensian wit and Elizabeth Gaskell's deft touch for gutsy outcast women seizing control of their destiny, Holman carves out a richly imaginative adventure as incisive and gruesomely fascinating as a 19th-century operating theatre' Amazon UK

Descrizione del libro:

Stunning historical literary novel with the appeal of Dickens or THE ALIENIST, set in 19th century Sunderland.

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• Editore: Sceptre
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0340717831
• ISBN 13: 9780340717837
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 320