Strange Music - Couverture souple

Fish, Laura

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099507986 ISBN 13 : 9780099507987

Editeur : Vintage, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Fish Laura

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'Fish nimbly draws parallels between [her character's] lives, packing a powerful emotional punch in the process' Tatler

In Laura Fish's ambitious and captivating novel, three very different women struggle for freedom. While Elizabeth Barrett Browning is confined to bed, chafing against the restriction of her doctors and writing poetry and fretful letters, at her family's Jamaican estate Kaydia, the Creole housekeeper tries to protect her daughter from their predatory master and a recently freed black slave, Sheba, mourns the loss of her lover.

As Elizabeth, a passionate abolitionist, struggles to come to terms with the source of her wealth and privilege both Sheba and Kydia fight to escape a tragic past which seems ever present. The resulting novel is an extraordinary evocation of the dark side of the nineteenth-century that is both horrifying and ultimately redeeming.

'Once Strange Music grips you, you won't be able to put it down' Independent

'A provocative contribution...to revisionist (and feminist) post-colonial fiction' Times Literary Supplement

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In Laura Fish's ambitious and captivating novel, three very different women struggle for freedom. While Elizabeth Barrett Browning is confined to bed, chafing against the restriction of her doctors and writing poetry and fretful letters, at her family's Jamaican estate Kaydia, the Creole housekeeper, tries to protect her daughter from their predatory master; and a recently freed black slave, Sheba, mourns the loss of her lover.

As Elizabeth, a passionate abolitionist, struggles to come to terms with the source of her wealth and privilege both Sheba and Kydia fight to escape a tragic past which seems ever-present. The resulting novel is an extraordinary evocation of the dark side of the nineteenth-century that is both horrifying and ultimately redeeming.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0099507986
• ISBN 13: 9780099507987
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 224