Idioglossia - Brossura

Bailey, Eleanor

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0552998605 ISBN 13: 9780552998604

Casa editrice: Black Swan, 2001

Riassunto

Idioglossia: A secret language between a few people, a private language; a lalallation; the babble of babies or the murmur of lunatics.

Bolshy, demanding, eccentric, Great Edie is a Jewish immigrant whose aspirations have always been dampened by reality and whose talents she obscures behind a bristling exterior. Her daughter Grace has been incarcerated in an asylum for most of her adult life following a tragedy from which she never recovers. As a result, Maggie, her only child, is brought up by an alcoholic father on board a cruise liner where, like him, she earns her keep as an entertainer of sorts. Her own daughter, Sarah, is truly dispossessed and, through promiscuous sex, seeks the affection denied to her as a child.

Though disparate, their lives have a curious symmetry: four generations of women who have all been touched by a legacy of madness which they must, in one way or another, confront if they are to achieve fulfilment. Idioglossia is a rich and rewarding novel written with a sparklingly original voice and is destined to establish Eleanor Bailey as one of the most exciting writers of her generation.

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Recensione:

"'Hugely entertaining...a clever dramatic read'" (Margaret Forster)

"'Eleanor Bailey's exuberant novel plays with the fate of characters struggling with the tensiobn between inner and outer reality...Funny and sad and full of human sympathy'" (Jill Paton Walsh)

Descrizione del libro:

A dazzling début novel about women and about madness from a virtuoso writing talent.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Black Swan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0552998605
• ISBN 13: 9780552998604
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 448