Mothering Sunday - Brossura

Swift, Graham

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ISBN 10: 110197172X ISBN 13: 9781101971727

Casa editrice: Vintage Books, 2017

Riassunto

On an unseasonably warm spring day in 1924, twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild, a maid at an English country house, meets with her secret lover, the young heir of a neighboring estate. He is about to be married to a woman more befitting his social status, and the time has come to end the affair—but events unfold in ways Jane could never have predicted.
 
As the narrative moves back and forth across the twentieth century, what we know and understand about Jane—about the way she loves, thinks, feels, sees, and remembers—expands with every page. In Mothering Sunday, Booker Prize-winning novelist Graham Swift has crafted an emotionally soaring and profoundly moving work of fiction.

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Recensione

“Haunting.” —The New York Times

“Exquisite. . . Mothering Sunday shows love, lust, and ordinary decency struggling against the bars of an unjust English caste system.” —Kazuo Ishiguro, The Guardian

“A book you’ll want to read more than once—and then urge on your friends.” —NPR
 
“An exquisite, emotionally resonant romance.” —Entertainment Weekly
 
“A fairy tale of sexual and intellectual awakening.” —The New Yorker

L'autore

Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of ten novels; two collections of short stories; and Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry and reflections on his life in writing. With Waterland he won The Guardian Fiction Award, and with Last Orders the Booker Prize. Both novels have since been made into films. His work has appeared in more than thirty
languages.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Vintage Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 110197172X
• ISBN 13: 9781101971727
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 177