A Quiet Life: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Bainbridge, Beryl

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0807608467 ISBN 13 : 9780807608463

Editeur : George Braziller, 1977

Synopsis

Book by Beryl Bainbridge

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Seventeen-year-old Alan can't stand rows. But, though the Second World War has ended, peace hangs by a fine thread at home: his troublesome sister Madge creeps off for night-time liaisons with a German POW; their ineffectual father - broken by the hardships of war and an unhappy marriage - can't put food on the table despite the family's middle-class manners. Meanwhile, his mother pursues her escapist fantasies in romantic novels and love affairs. Obedient, faithful Alan is trapped among them all, the focus of their jibes and resentment, as inexorably the family heads towards disaster. Beryl Bainbridge's classic early novel is a vintage story of English domestic life, laced with sadness, irony and wicked black humour.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In the shabby, cluttered confines of their small house in an English seaside village just after World War II, a family of genteel poverty struggles daily, unremittingly, with itself. To escape the endless quarrel, the romantically disappointed mother spends half the night reading novels in the railway station, while the melancholy father weeps in front of the radio. The fifteen-year-old daughter sneaks off after dark to meet a German P.O.W. in the woods, and her brother, Alan, through whom we experience the domestic nightmare, suffers the family he tries to ignore and cannot alter, at least not until it has been destroyed.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: George Braziller
• Date d'édition: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0807608467
• ISBN 13: 9780807608463
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1