The Pure Gold Baby - Brossura

Drabble, Margaret

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ISBN 10: 1443425362 ISBN 13: 9781443425360

Casa editrice: HarperCollins Publishers, 2013

Riassunto

The first new novel in five years from “one of the most versatile and accomplished writers of her generation” (Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker)

Jessica Speight, a young anthropology student in 1960s London, is at the beginning of a promising academic career when an affair with her married professor turns her into a single mother. Anna is a pure gold baby with a delightful, sunny nature, but it soon becomes clear that she will not be a normal child. As readers are drawn deeper into Jessica’s world, they are confronted with questions of responsibility, potential, even age, all with Margaret Drabble’s characteristic intelligence, sympathy and wit.

Drabble once wrote, “Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary; it is, perpetually, a dangerous place.” Told from the point of view of the group of mothers who surround Jess, The Pure Gold Baby is a brilliant, prismatic novel thattakes us into that place with satiric verve, trenchant commentary, and a movingly intimate story of the unexpected transformations at the heart of motherhood.

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L'autore:

MARGARET DRABBLE is the author of The Sea Lady, The Seven Sisters, The Peppered Moth and The Needle’s Eye, among other novels. She has written biographies of Arnold Bennett and Angus Wilson, and she is the editor of the fifth and sixth editions of The Oxford Companion to English Literature. For her contributions to contemporary English literature, Drabble was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2008.

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• Editore: HarperCollins Publishers
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1443425362
• ISBN 13: 9781443425360
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304