Pinkerton's Sister - Couverture souple

Rushforth, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0156031868 ISBN 13 : 9780156031868

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2006

Synopsis

Trapped in a suffocating life of convention and party chatter, Alice Pinkerton has turned to the liberating worlds she finds in literature. Like a character from one of her favorite novels, Alice holds a biting, eccentric, but expansive view of life; she wears only white, has a stutter, and knows her peers call her a madwoman in the attic. Various period cures-hydrotherapy, hypnotherapy, electrotherapy, a sanitarium-fail to turn this thirty-two-year-old, highly imaginative, caustically funny woman into one of the silly damsels of 1903's New York Society. Hauntingly, beneath all this lies a dark family secret.

Pinkerton's Sister is a novel for readers, who will thrill to recognize a kindred in Alice's references to our most beloved literary characters: Jo March, Jane Eyre, Leo Bloom, and Hester Prynne, among many others, grace these pages. This intertextual, playful work certainly qualifies as "the ultimate book-geek's guilty pleasure" (Creative Loafing Atlanta).

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

New York at the turn of the century, a city bursting with new life as the old century's order makes way for the new. But in the Pinkerton household a nineteenth-century embarrassment remains: Alice Pinkerton, spinster daughter of a wealthy mercantile family.
Though her neighbours consider her a simpleton, in reality Alice's mind is razor-sharp. She is thirty-five years of age, and all she has is her books. Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe are her inspiration; Jane Eyre, Maggie Tulliver her companions, nourishing her lonely life. And as she moves through the witless world around her, observing its prejudices, its shallow culture, its hatred of truth, she transports those who belittle her into these books, where they can no longer hide, forced to reveal their true characters.
Twenty-five years in the writing, heartbreakingly funny, fiercely intelligent, Pinkerton's Sister is an extraordinary work of imagination, about imagination.

'From the very first paragraph of this richly textured, highly literary and musical novel…I found myself absorbed into a bizarre and unsettling world, utterly unlike anything I have read…Pinkerton's Sister is a disturbing, brilliant and rewarding read' Independent
'Perfected prose…As an account of the growth of a mind it is quite exceptional… Rushforth has taken his time and produced a book almost entirely lacking in the usual qualities of the contemporary English novel. Thank goodness' Guardian
'In 1979 Peter Rushforth's first novel won the Hawthornden Prize. He has been writing this second one ever since, and the quarter of a century's work has made Pinkerton's Sister into a magnificent achievement' Sunday Telegraph
'A treasure trove of a novel, complex, rich and satisfying' Susan Hill

Présentation de l'éditeur

Trapped in a suffocating life of convention and party chatter, Alice Pinkerton has turned to the liberating worlds she finds in literature. Like a character from one of her favorite novels, Alice holds a biting, eccentric, but expansive view of life; she wears only white, has a stutter, and knows her peers call her a madwoman in the attic. Various period cures-hydrotherapy, hypnotherapy, electrotherapy, a sanitarium-fail to turn this thirty-two-year-old, highly imaginative, caustically funny woman into one of the silly damsels of 1903's New York Society. Hauntingly, beneath all this lies a dark family secret.

Pinkerton's Sister is a novel for readers, who will thrill to recognize a kindred in Alice's references to our most beloved literary characters: Jo March, Jane Eyre, Leo Bloom, and Hester Prynne, among many others, grace these pages. This intertextual, playful work certainly qualifies as "the ultimate book-geek's guilty pleasure" (Creative Loafing Atlanta).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0156031868
• ISBN 13: 9780156031868
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 752
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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