The Greatcoat - Couverture rigide

Dunmore, Helen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0099564939 ISBN 13 : 9780099564935

Editeur : Hammer, 2012

Synopsis

A chilling and atmospheric ghost story by the Orange-prize-winning Helen Dunmore.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Helen Dunmore, born 12 December 1952, was an award-winning novelist, children’s author and poet who will be remembered for the depth and breadth of her fiction. Rich and intricate, yet narrated with a deceptive simplicity that made all of her work accessible and heartfelt, her writing stood out for the fluidity and lyricism of her prose, and her extraordinary ability to capture the presence of the past.

Her first novel, Zennor in Darkness, explored the events which led D. H. Lawrence to be expelled from Cornwall on suspicion of spying, and won the McKitterick Prize. Her third novel, A Spell of Winter, won the inaugural Orange Prize for Fiction in 1996, and she went on to become a Sunday Times bestseller with The Siege, which was described by Antony Beevor as a ‘world-class novel’ and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year and the Orange Prize. Published in 2010, her eleventh novel, The Betrayal, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and The Lie in 2014 was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the 2015 RSL Ondaatje Prize.

Her final novel, Birdcage Walk, deals with legacy and recognition – what writers, especially women writers, can expect to leave behind them – and was described by the Observer as ‘the finest novel Helen Dunmore has written’.

Helen was known to be an inspirational and generous author, championing emerging voices and other established authors. She also gave a large amount of her time to supporting literature, independent bookshops all over the UK, and arts organisations across the world. She died in June 2017.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

A haunting story from a writer at the height of her powers.

"In the dark she slid back the curtain again, and there he was.

The street-lamp lit him and he raised his hand to the window again, but this time he didn't tap on it. He spread out his hand flat on the glass, all the while looking at Isabel.

She clutched the coat to her. Her brain was still fogged with the noise of engines. She shook it, but the sound would not shake out.

He was looking at her intently, waiting for something."

'An electrifying and original talent, a writer whose style is characterized by a lyrical, dreamy intensity' Guardian

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

In the winter of 1952, Isabel Carey moves to the East Riding of Yorkshire with her husband Philip, a GP. With Philip spending long hours on call, Isabel finds herself isolated and lonely as she strives to adjust to the realities of married life.

Woken by intense cold one night, she discovers an old RAF greatcoat hidden in the back of a cupboard. Sleeping under it for warmth, she starts to dream. And not long afterwards, while her husband is out, she is startled by a knock at her window.

Outside is a young RAF pilot, waiting to come in.

His name is Alec, and his powerful presence both disturbs and excites her. Her initial alarm soon fades, and they begin an intense affair. But nothing has prepared her for the truth about Alec's life, nor the impact it will have on hers ...

'Everyone should read her work' Independent on Sunday
'Intensely gripping' Sunday Times

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hammer
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099564939
• ISBN 13: 9780099564935
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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