Orkney - Brossura

Sackville, Amy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1619023164 ISBN 13: 9781619023161

Casa editrice: Counterpoint LLC, 2014

Riassunto

Following her wonderful debut, The Still Point, Sackville returns with a strangely beautiful short novel about love and sex and obsession. A literature professor marries his prize student, a woman forty years his junior, and at her request he takes her to the sea for their honeymoon. He is embarked on his life’s work, a book about enchantment-narratives in literature, most all of them involving strange girls and women, but soon finds himself distracted by his own enchantment for his new white-haired young wife.

They travel to the Orkney Islands, the ancient Mesolithic and Neolithic site north of the Scottish coast, ?the Seal Islands,” a barren place of extraordinary beauty. And as the days of their honeymoon pass his desire and his constant, yearning contemplation become his normality. His mysterious bride becomes his entire universe.

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L'autore

Amy Sackville was born in 1981. She studied English and Theatre Studies at Leeds, and went on to an MPhil in English at Exeter College, Oxford, and an MA in Creative & Life Writing at Goldsmiths. Her first novel was The Still Point. She teaches creative writing at the University of Kent.

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Yesterday morning, at home, I woke beside her for the first time. Well, that is not quite true; last night I slept beside her for the first time, but by dawn I had woken beside her a dozen times, a hundred times, sometimes from a sleep so shallow I couldn't call it waking. Again and again I turned to find another body in my bed, an unfamiliar warmth alongside my own, and wondered where I was and what I had done, before remembering and sinking again into a grateful doze—only to wake again moments later. Each time, as the brown abstraction of my surroundings resolved into the ordinary shapes of my own bedroom, there was still that body beside me, a living residue of an impossibly optimistic dream. All night, the rise and fall of her form, I snuffle and snore.

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• Editore: Counterpoint LLC
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1619023164
• ISBN 13: 9781619023161
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 264