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The Stories

Door Jane Gardam

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#434814-YB34
Titel
The Stories
Auteur
Gardam, Jane
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Abacus
Jaar van uitgave
2015
ISBN10
0349140383
ISBN13
9780349140384
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting
<p><b>'Pure delight'</b> <i><b>The Times</b><br> <br></i>Throughout her career, prize-winning novelist Jane Gardam has been writing glorious short stories, each one hallmarked with all the originality, poignancy, wry comedy and narrative brilliance of her longer fiction.<br> <br> Passion and longing, metamorphosis and enchantment are Gardam's themes, and like a magician she plucks them from the quietest of corners: from Wimbledon gardens and cold churches, from London buses and industrial backstreets. A mother watching her children on the beach dreams of a long-lost lover, an abandoned army wife sees a ghost at a moorland gate, a translator adrift in Geneva is haunted by the unspeakable manifestation of her own fears, and a ... (Lees verder)colonial servant wreaks a delicious revenge on her monstrous masters. Gardam's cast is wide and wonderful, saints and mystics, trollops and curmudgeons, yearning mothers and lost children, beloved figures such as Old Filth and less familiar - but equally unforgettable - characters like Signor Settimo, the sad-eyed provincial photographer marooned in Shipley or Florrie Ironside, the ferocious matron he seduces.<br> <br> With a mischievous ear for dialogue, a glittering eye for detail and a capacious understanding of the vagaries of the human heart, Jane Gardam's stories will captivate, sadden and delight.</p>
Pagina's
480
Conditie
Goed — Creases in spine.
Prijs
€ 8,00

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