The Angel's Cut - Brossura

Knox, Elizabeth

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099540045 ISBN 13: 9780099540045

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2009

Riassunto

Hollywood, 1929. While Conrad Cole is working late on elaborate plans for his aeroplanes and his films, a mysterious stranger appears at his door. Xas soon finds himself caught up in the glamorous and treacherous world of movie-making and entangled with both Cole and a young woman who owes her life to the eccentric director.

Both of them are drawn to Xas without knowing his secret - that under his shirt he hides the remnants of great snowy wings that set him apart from humankind, and that he is destined to wander the earth forever, always hearing the beating of feathers behind him, threatening him that his dark brother has found him again.

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Recensione:

"Knox is a writer with a gift for describing the colour of the present moment...she lets her language breathe, lets it speak in revelations rather than explanations" (Times Literary Supplement)

"Her words have the power to dazzle" (Independent)

"Knox's evocation of thirties California is dreamy, and her characters interestingly warped" (Emma Hagestadt Independent)

Descrizione del libro:

Sequel to Orange Prize-longlisted The Vintner's Luck, this a beautifully written and unusual novel - a combination of fantasy, thriller and love story, set in 1920s Hollywood.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0099540045
• ISBN 13: 9780099540045
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 464