An Inventory of Heaven - Brossura

Feaver, Jane

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1780338759 ISBN 13: 9781780338750

Casa editrice: Corsair, 2013

Riassunto

As a young woman, Mavis Gaunt leaves post-war London to make a new life for herself in rural Devon, where she spent a few blissful months of her childhood as an evacuee. Living alone in the verdant hamlet of Shipleigh, she believes she's found a heaven on earth - until a violent tragedy brings trouble to paradise, and turns Mavis's idyllic solitude into a tormented, guarded isolation.

Decades later, the arrival of a newcomer to the village forces Mavis to make a final reckoning: should she take her horrible secret to the grave? Or, should she summon up her ghosts and, in doing so, lay them to rest? An Inventory of Heaven is a lyrical and intimate meditation on the rural life, falling in love and the long passing of time.

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Recensione:

More intimate than Thomas Hardy, and as perceptive too, about the countryside and country people, Jane Feaver is a supremely compelling chronicler of rural isolation. (Michael Morpurgo)

Accomplished in every way, this novel is a true delight. (The Independent)

Pitch perfect....Most memorable is Feaver's language - burnished and sturdily poetic with a saving comic streak (Observer)

Jane Feaver has proved an expert at creating a sense of place ... tender, imaginative prose (Sunday Herald.)

It’s wonderful. The Inventory of Heaven is a revitalising exception to all the grim, mannered, clever books I read over the summer. The observation, the ear, the breadth of imaginative sympathy – all these reminded me why it’s worth reading fiction. (Sean O'Brien)

Descrizione del libro:

By turns chilling and poignant, An Inventory of Heaven is a lyrical and intimate meditation on the things we hold onto in life and how, in the end, we can try to let them go.

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• Editore: Corsair
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1780338759
• ISBN 13: 9781780338750
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352