The Beacon - Rilegato

Hill, Susan

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0701183403 ISBN 13: 9780701183400

Casa editrice: Chatto & Windus, 2008

Riassunto

'The farmhouse was called The Beacon and they had been born and reared there, May, Colin, Frank and Berenice, but only May had been left for the last 27 years ...'

May had been the clever daughter and she had escaped the shelter of The Beacon, just once, to go to university. But in London she had been pursued by nameless terrors, the victim of fears and anxieties. Now she was the spinster daughter, the one who stayed, who nursed her father after his accident and looked after her mother in her old age.

Frank was the one who got away. He married and moved on. But why does no one ever mention Frank's name?

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Recensione:

"It is a little masterpiece" (Daily Telegraph)

Descrizione del libro:

Brilliant novella by Susan Hill about what happens within a family when one of the brothers publishes his 'misery memoir'. There is serialisation, media frenzy, TV, a film .... The family is ostracised. Is his litany of childhood torments at the hands of his parents and siblings a complete invention? Or was there really a cupboard under the stairs?

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• Editore: Chatto & Windus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0701183403
• ISBN 13: 9780701183400
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 160