Gertrude and Claudius - Rilegato

Updike, John

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0375409084 ISBN 13: 9780375409080

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2000

Riassunto

Set in the Denmark of Shakespeare's Hamlet before the action in the play, this novel of Hamlet's parents speculates on the forces that led Gertrude into a middleaged affair with her husband's younger brother.

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Recensione

“Shakespeare’s plays have had many offshoots. Gertrude and Claudius, though, stands in a class of its own: a superlative homage from one imaginative veteran to another.”—The Sunday Times (London)
 
“[A] pearl of a book . . . a game for real stakes . . . Updike has used Shakespeare to write a free-standing, pleasurable, and wonderfully dexterous novel about three figures in complex interplay.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“A living, powerfully physical work . . . Updike is a superbly skillful writer.”—The Wall Street Journal

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L'autore

John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. He is the author of more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375409084
• ISBN 13: 9780375409080
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 212