Memory Stones - Brossura

O'Riordan, Kate

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0743450175 ISBN 13: 9780743450171

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster, 2003

Riassunto

Nell, a rare female Master of Wine, enjoys an uncluttered and elegant life in Paris, sharing her days with Lulu - the cantankerous poodle her best friend bequeathed to her as a joke on her deathbed - and sharing her passion for wine with Henri, her lover and married vineyard owner. Until a phone call shatters the peace of her carefully constructed world... It is her daughter's neighbour in Ireland, with news so worrying that Nell can no longer avoid the inevitable. She must return home for the first time in over thirty years. But why has it taken Nell so long to swap the boulevards of Paris for the green fields of Western Ireland? And why didn't she even go back for her own mother's funeral? A poignant and gripping exploration of love, loss and the nature of memory itself, THE MEMORY STONES is a moving study of the intricacies of mother/daughter relationships, observed with razor-sharp precision and great tenderness.

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Praise for Kate O'Riordan
THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE
'A book lover's dream. Hugely enjoyable, beautifully written, funny and moving' SUNDAY TRIBUNE
'A sublime comedy, with wit and frolics that will make you laugh out loud' GOOD BOOK GUIDE
'A hugely enjoyable book. In Robert and Angela, O'Riordan has created characters the reader can't fail to warm to. THE ANGLE IN THE HOUSE is quite adorable' SUNDAY TRIBUNE
'An enchanting love story, people with memorable characters and written with wit, insight and a sure understanding. O'Riordan is a witty and imaginative writer' DUBLIN EVENING HERALD
'The world of this story, the city, the people, the extraordinary that exists in the ordinary, is observed with wonderful insight. Highly recommended' IMPACT
'Highly agreeable ... with a multitude of twists and turns' THE TIMES
THE BOY IN THE MOON
'A real cliffhanger ... Exquisitely spare in execution. A haunting examination of human strength and frailty' TIME OUT
'Gripping and powerful ... delight and surprise at every turn' TRIBUNE
'O'Riordan's work is concerned with hidden things, the unsettling secrets of the past that seep into the present. That revelatory quality is evident in all her work, as well as a strain of violence, visceral and disturbingly realistic' IRISH POST
INVOLVED
'A truthfully imagined and gracefully tense first novel from a terrific storyteller' JOSEPH O'CONNOR
'Magical ... O'Riordan's real skill is in the gradual exposure of verbal approximations that, even between lovers, stand hopelessly for communication' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
'A very skilled writer whose vivid prose has an elegant subtlety ... Delineated with a rare, and almost painfully stark, honesty' IRISH TIMES

L'autore

Kate is an award-winning novelist, playwright and television screen writer and has been a recipient of the SUNDAY TRIBUNE/HENNESSY PRIZE for 'Best Emerging Writer'.
THE MEMORY STONES is her fourth novel after INVOLVED (shortlisted for Dillons First Fiction Prize), THE BOY IN THE MOON (Arts Council Award) and THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE, which is being adapted for a feature film. Kate has also contributed to the hugely successful short story collection LADIES NIGHT AT FINBAR'S HOTEL.
Kate was brought up in the West of Ireland, but now lives in London with her husband. She is currently working on her fifth novel, and a commissioned screenplay.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Simon & Schuster
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0743450175
• ISBN 13: 9780743450171
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 384
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV; info@simonandschuster.nl; ; Herculesplein 96; Utrecht; 3584 AA; Paesi Bassi