Leeway Cottage: A Novel - Couverture souple

Gutcheon, Beth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0060539062 ISBN 13 : 9780060539061

Editeur : William Morrow Paperbacks, 2006

Synopsis

Book by Gutcheon Beth

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“[E]nthralling . . . triumphant and true.” (Boston Globe)

“Absorbing...Daring...Gutcheon has strong narrative skills.” (New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice)

“Pure storytelling...[Gutcheon’s] characters and settings are alive, sparkling with deft touches of period detail...riveting...vibrant.” (New York Newsday)

“A remarkably rich and emotionally jarring novel filled ultimately with hope.” (Pages Magazine)

“A great drama, cinematically told...[Gutcheon] writes elegantly about the complex bonds of family.” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

“A gentle, even tender book. Every reader will be wiser for it.” (BookPage)

“A good old–fashioned, all–encompassing read, with tears and smiles guaranteed.” (Library Journal)

“Compelling...Ambitious...Gutcheon’s insights are...keen, her sympathy for all her characters...contagious.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“Charting a marriage against the backdrop of a tumultuous century, Gutcheon writes evocatively of love and war.” (Publishers Weekly)

“Gutcheon’s tale is more than just a story of a marriage; it’s a metaphor for an era.” (Booklist)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In April 1940, as the Nazis march into Denmark, Sydney Brant, a wealthy girl of the Dundee summer colony, marries a gifted Danish pianist, Laurus Moss. They believe they are well matched, as young lovers do, but Laurus's beloved family is in Copenhagen, hostage to what the fortunes of Hitler's war will bring. By the time the war is over, Laurus's family has played an active role in Denmark's grassroots rescue of virtually all seven thousand of the country's Jews. Meanwhile, in America, Sydney has led a group knitting for the war effort, and had a baby.

Combining the story of one long American twentieth-century marriage with one of the most stirring stories of World War II, Leeway Cottage is a beautifully written tour de force of a novel.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060539062
• ISBN 13: 9780060539061
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448