The Lacuna: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction - Brossura

Barbara Kingsolver

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ISBN 10: 0571252672 ISBN 13: 9780571252671

Casa editrice: Faber and Faber, 2010

Riassunto

From Pulitzer Prize nominee and award winning author of Homeland, The Poisonwood Bible and Flight Behaviour, The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s America in the shadow of Senator McCarthy. Born in America and raised in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salome. When he starts work in the household of Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo - where the Bolshevik leader, Lev Trotsky, is also being harboured as a political exile - he inadvertently casts his lot with art, communism and revolution. A compulsive diarist, he records and relates his colourful experiences of life with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Trotsky in the midst of the Mexican revolution. A violent upheaval sends him back to America; but political winds continue to throw him between north and south, in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach - the lacuna - between truth and public presumption.

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Descrizione del libro:

The Orange Prize-winning novel, The Lacuna, from Barbara Kingsolver, the bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible.

L'autore:

Barbara Kingsolver was born in 1955 and grew up in eastern Kentucky. Her books include poetry, non-fiction and award-winning fiction, and in 1999 she was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for The Poisonwood Bible. She lives with her husband and daughter in southern Arizona and in the mountains of southern Appalachia.

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• Editore: Faber and Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0571252672
• ISBN 13: 9780571252671
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 688