Bee Season: A Novel - Brossura

Goldberg, Myla

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0385498802 ISBN 13: 9780385498807

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2001

Riassunto

An ordinary girl with an exceptional gift for spelling, young Eliza Naumann embarks on the rough-and-tumble "spelling bee" circuit, where her quirky family will collide with the harsh realities of life. A first novel. Reissue. (A Bona Fide Productions, Fox Searchlight film, releasing November 2005, directed by Scott McGehee & David Siegel, starring Juliette Binoche & Richard Gere) (General Fiction)

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"Bee Season is a profound delight, an amazement, a beauty, and is, I hope, a book of the longest of seasons."
—Jane Hamilton, author of A Map of the World and The Book of Ruth

"Myla Goldberg's Bee Season is a bittersweet coming-of-age in which wise little Eliza Naumann's quirky passion for spelling bees unites and divides her family while revealing universal truths about the often crippling pain of love."
—Martha McPhee, author of Bright Angel Time

"There is such joy and pain thrumming inside Myla Goldberg's spelling bees! She delicately captures one family's spinning out by concentrating equally on the beauty and the despair. Bee Season is a heartbreaking first novel."
—Aimee Bender, author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

"In a story told with unique delicacy and brave inventiveness, a young girl, innocent and all-knowing, learns how much there is to lose, and what it takes to win."
—Elizabeth Strout, author of Amy and Isabelle

L'autore:

Myla Goldberg lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, Jason Little.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0385498802
• ISBN 13: 9780385498807
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288