Tin Toys Trilogy: A Virago Modern Classic - Brossura

Holden, Ursula

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ISBN 10: 1844088278 ISBN 13: 9781844088270

Casa editrice: Virago, 2013

Riassunto

Born into an affluent family, Bonnie, Tor and Ula have been left to the feckless embrace of the cook and their nanny. Their father is dead. Their glamorous mother is away entertaining the troops.

When their infant brother falls ill and dies, the household disintegrates. In Tin Toys, Ula escapes with Cook, barely out of girlhood herself, and lands at the mansion of an enigmatic matriarch. In Unicorn Sisters, the three sisters are sent to a shabby English boarding school where the pupils are pitted against an anarchic gang of East End evacuees. A Bubble Garden finds the girls in Ireland, where they scrape a life in a crumbling, once-grand farmhouse, while their mother and her new husband are mired in their private traumas. A uniquely compelling and powerful coming-of-age classic.

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Recensione:

Extraordinarily good in its penetration into a child's happiness and unhappiness. (Molly Keane)

Seriously radiant. (The Times)

Ursula Holden is a highly original writer . . . She has an abrupt, disconcerting wit. (Irish Times)

Superb . . . the deceptively simple style conveys the dark undercurrents of violence, of developing sexuality, and the betrayals and corruptions of the adult world. (Daily Telegraph)

Descrizione del libro:

Ursula Holden's classic trilogy weaves a vivid, dramatic and mysterious story of three sisters coming of age in England and Ireland during the war years.

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• Editore: Virago
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1844088278
• ISBN 13: 9781844088270
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 432