God On The Rocks
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1978
(Sprache: Englisch)
*A moving, Booker shortlisted story of a girl's coming of age, beautifully rejacketed for this reissue
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*A moving, Booker shortlisted story of a girl's coming of age, beautifully rejacketed for this reissue
Autoren-Porträt von Jane Gardam
Jane Gardam is the only writer to have been twice awarded the Whitbread/Costa Prize for Best Novel of the Year, for The Queen of the Tambourine and The Hollow Land. She also holds a Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of literature. She is the author of five volumes of acclaimed stories: Black Faces, White Faces (David Higham Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize); The Pangs of Love (Katherine Mansfield Prize); Going into a Dark House (Silver Pen Award from PEN); Missing the Midnight; and The People on Privilege Hill. Her novels include God on the Rocks, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Faith Fox; The Flight of the Maidens; the bestselling Old Filth, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2005; The Man in the Wooden Hat; and Last Friends. Jane Gardam was born in Yorkshire. She now lives in east Kent.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jane Gardam
- 2008, 224 Seiten, Maße: 19,5 x 12,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- ISBN-10: 0349121494
- ISBN-13: 9780349121499
- Erscheinungsdatum: 07.01.2016
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Englisch
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'A meticulously observed modern classic' INDEPENDENT 'Exact, piquant and comical' OBSERVER 'Tantalising ... Funny, sharp' DAILY TELEGRAPH Jane Gardam has a spectacular gift for detail of the local and period kind, and for details which make characters so subtly unpredictable that they ring true' TLS
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