Mary Reilly - Brossura

Martin, Valerie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0375725997 ISBN 13: 9780375725999

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2001

Riassunto

Escaping a life of brutal childhood abuse, Mary Reilly takes a position in the employ of Dr. Jekyll, but the arrival of a new "assistant" marks the beginning of a series of strange events, in a retelling of the classic horror story, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“The generosity with which Mary Reilly is imagined, the elegance of Martin's writing and the depth of her engagement with her title character make it a memorable and absorbing experience.” —Chicago Tribune

 

“Valerie Martin creates memorable characters: the pompous butler...an unctuous landlord...and the utterly convincing Mary, with a housemaid's eye, a servant's rigorous sense of place-and a sufferer's hard won dignity.” —Newsweek

 

“Mary Reilly is an achievement-creativity skating exhilaratingly on thin ice.” —The New York Times

 

“Mary is a remarkable character.... A marvelous performance.” —USA Today

 

“Haunting.... Powerful.... Mary Reilly's voice...casts a spell from the beginning: we turn the pages, furiously compelled, because we must know more about her.” —Chicago Sun-Times

 

“Entrancing and elegant.... A seamless retelling of the Jekyll and Hyde story that is both a compliment and a complement to the original.” —The Orlando Sentinel

 

“Mary Reilly is intensely cinematic, highly dramatic, suspenseful, stirring and entirely absorbing.... Mary Reilly is magnificent.” —The Kansas City Star

 

“Mary Reilly is a virtuoso work, a meticulously crafted, resplendently written story.... Authentic in its abundance of historical detail, it is also unbounded in Martin's imaginative exploration of the psyche of a young girl.” —Daily News

L'autore:

Valerie Martin is the author of ten novels, including The Ghost of the Mary Celeste, The Confessions of Edward Day, Trespass, Mary Reilly, Italian Fever, and Property; three collections of short fiction; and a biography of Saint Francis of Assisi, titled Salvation. She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as the Kafka Prize (for Mary Reilly) and Britain’s Orange Prize (for Property).

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375725997
• ISBN 13: 9780375725999
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272