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Woodbrook - Couverture souple

Thomson, David

 
9780099359913: Woodbrook
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 009935991X ISBN 13 : 9780099359913
Editeur : Vintage, 1994

Synopsis

Woodbrook is a rare house that gives its name to a small, rural area in Ireland, not far from the old port of Sligo. It has been owned since the seventeenth century by the Anglo-Irish Kirkwoods. In 1932, David Thomson, aged eighteen, went there are a tutor. He stayed for ten years.

This memoir, acknowledged as a masterpiece, grew out of two great loves - for Woodbrook and for Phoebe, his pupil. In it he builds up a delicate, lyrical picture of a gentle pre-war society, of Irish history and troubled Anglo-Irish relations, and of a delightful family. Above all, his story reverberates with the enchantment of falling in love and with the desolation of bereavement.

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À propos de l'auteur

David Thomson was born in India in 1914 to Scottish parents, but grew up in Scotland and Derbyshire. After the period described in Woodbrook he developed a career in writing and at the BBC. He died in 1988.

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Éditeur
Vintage
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
009935991X
ISBN 13 
9780099359913
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
The Random House Group Limited
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The Random House Group Limited
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