Exiles - Couverture souple

Hansen, Ron

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0312428340 ISBN 13 : 9780312428341

Editeur : Picador, 2009

Synopsis

In December 1875 the steamship Deutschland left Bremen, Germany, bound for America. On board were five nuns, exiled by a ban on religious orders, bound to begin their lives anew in Missouri. Their journey would end when the Deutschland ran aground at the mouth of the Thames and all five drowned. Ron Hansen tells their harrowing story, but also that of the poet and seminarian Gerard Manly Hopkins, and how the shipwreck moved him to write a grand poem, a revelatory work read throughout the world today. Combining a thrilling tragedy at sea, with the seeming shipwreck of Hopkins's own life, "Hansen brilliantly, if soberly, weaves two interrelated story lines into a riveting novel" (Booklist on Exiles).

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ron Hansen's novels include Desperadoes, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Mariette in Ecstasy, and Atticus, a finalist for the National Book Award. He teaches at Santa Clara University in Northern California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0312428340
• ISBN 13: 9780312428341
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
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• Personne responsable: non disponible