Signs of the Heart - Couverture souple

Hope, Christopher

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0330367048 ISBN 13 : 9780330367042

Editeur : Picador, 2000

Synopsis

Hope's dispatches from the French Front - from the villages, cafes, bars and junk shops of Languedoc - do not describe rural idyll but a world of rogues and raconteurs, lovers and losers whose two preoccupations are inextricably entwined: love and death. "There is Sophie, a New Zealander who believes she is God. There is Lizzie from Lancashire who plies her trade as a prostitute with expatriate Britons only. But in Hope's hands this gallery become neither charming eccentrics nor colourful locals, but an exotic shifting populace that reads more like persuasive fiction than travelogue." - Penelope Lively, "Daily Telegraph." "He is a superb prose stylist, with a deep understanding of how a place works upon a person...Christopher Hope makes us taste and feel the lasting resonance of a simple meal of fresh bread, a twist of salt and fresh sardines in a damp, cold cottage in the Tarn." - Catherine Lockerbie, "Scotsman".

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Christopher Hope was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1944 and moved to London in 1975. He is the author of twelve novels including Kruger’s Alp, winner of the Whitbread Novel Award, and the Booker short-listed Serenity House. Hope's non-fiction includes a highly praised volume of autobiography, White Boy Running (1988) and a travel book, Moscow! Moscow! (1990), which won a PEN Award.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0330367048
• ISBN 13: 9780330367042
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
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• Personne responsable: non disponible