A Family Daughter: A Novel - Brossura

Meloy, Maile

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0743277678 ISBN 13: 9780743277679

Casa editrice: Scribner, 2007

Riassunto

A continuation of the story that began with Liars and Saints finds a young woman from the Santerre clan accompanying her family to Argentina, where their lives become entwined with an uninhibited rich girl, an aging French playboy, a young Eastern European prostitute, and an orphaned child. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

"Fast-moving and compelling...ambitious and playful and clever."
-- The Washington Post

"The Santerre family...includes so many appealing personalities, with all the dreams, hopes, and foibles of people we have loved at one time or another."
-- Los Angeles Times

"Wise and astonishing."
-- The New Yorker

"A big book as well as a swift, slender, graceful one."
-- The New York Times

"A seductive, absorbing read."
-- The Philadelphia Inquirer

L'autore:

Maile Meloy is the author of the story collection Half in Love and the novel Liars and Saints, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize. Meloy's stories have been published in The New Yorker, and she has received The Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in California.

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• Editore: Scribner
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0743277678
• ISBN 13: 9780743277679
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336