Woman of the Inner Sea - Brossura

Keneally, Thomas

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0452271770 ISBN 13: 9780452271777

Casa editrice: Plume, 1994

Riassunto

Why would wealthy Kate Gaffney-Kozinsky flee her husband, lover, family, and society? What can she find by losing herself in the bleak Australian outback? The fascinating answers shape a novel that gives new definition to a woman's strength and endurance. Kate's odyssey takes her from a privileged girlhood, through her meaningless marriage to a lawless tycoon, and an empty erotic affair with a true-blue gentleman. But when her life of pampered pleasure gives way to one of unspeakable tragedy, all certainties are shattered, and Kate is plunged into a blind gamble on an unknown future in the middle of nowhere. The job she finds, the lovers she takes, and her final confrontation with her husband's power and her own past self interweave comedy, irony, drama, suspense, and wondrously affirmative human revelation. With its vivid setting, its cross-section of colorful characters, and, at its center, its passionate heroine caught in a nightmare of grief and deception, Women of the Inner Sea is at once startlingly intimate and universally appealing. It adds a new dimension and fresh luster to one of the major literary reputations of our time. 

"One of the finest storytellers in the business . . . at the top of his form . . . an extraordinary, eloquently written tale."—The Boston Globe

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Thomas Keneally has won international acclaim for his novels Schindler's Ark, Confederates, Gossip from the Forest, Playmaker, Woman of the Inner Sea, and A River Town. He is most recently the author of the biography American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles.

Product Description:

A moving story of heroism, filled with vivid characterizations, suspense, and a keen sense of mystery--Kenneally's most compelling work since his Booker Prize-winning Schindler's List. A woman who loses her husband's love and attention to his mistress and his political dealings, and her children to a tragic fire, attempts to start anew in the Australian outback.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Plume
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0452271770
• ISBN 13: 9780452271777
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288