The Flood - Rilegato

Rankin, Ian

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0752873091 ISBN 13: 9780752873091

Casa editrice: Orion, 2005

Riassunto

In 1986, a small Scottish publishing firm released a first novel by a talented young writer. Only a few hundred copies were printed but it was a literary milestone nonetheless. The book was THE FLOOD. The author was Ian Rankin...

Mary Miller had always been an outcast. As a young girl she had fallen into the hot burn - a torrent of warm chemical run-off from the local coal mine. Fished out white-haired and half-dead, sympathy for her quickly faded when the young man who pushed her in died in a mining accident just two days later. From then on she was regarded with a mixture of suspicion and fascination by her God-fearing community.

Now, years later she is hardly less alone. She is the mother of a bastard son, Sandy, and caught up in a faltering affair with a local teacher. Sandy, meanwhile, has fallen in love with a strange homeless girl. The search for happiness isn't easy. Both mother and son must face a dark secret from their past, in the growing knowledge that their small dramas are being played out against a much larger canvas, glimpsed only in symbols and flickering images - of decay and regrowth, of fire and water - of the flood.

THE FLOOD is both a coming-of-age novel and an amazing portrait of a time and place. Proto-Rankin as it is, it's dark, atmospheric and powerful - a remarkable debut from a remarkable author.

Su questo libro

Recensione:

A must for lovers of Rankin (GOOD BOOK GUIDE)

Full of secrets and revelations, with an atmospheric sense of time and place, it has Rankin's signature darkness (CHOICE)

It wouldn't take a Rebus to sleuth out the telltale signs of a talent in the making (Chris Power THE TIMES)

Descrizione del libro:

Ian Rankin's first ever novel.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Orion
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0752873091
• ISBN 13: 9780752873091
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 256