According To Queeney - Couverture souple

Bainbridge, Beryl

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0349114471 ISBN 13 : 9780349114477

Editeur : Abacus, 2002

Synopsis

A wonderful, immaculately researched novel that brings Dr Johnson, his friends and his times to life, reissued with a new introduction.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Beryl Bainbridge is the author of seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television. The Dressmaker, The Bottle Factory Outing, An Awfully Big Adventure, Every Man for Himself and Master Georgie (which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize) were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Every Man for Himself was awarded the Whitbread Novel of the Year Prize. She won the Guardian Fiction Prize with The Dressmaker and the Whitbread Prize with Injury Time. The Bottle Factory Outing, Sweet William and The Dressmaker have all been adapted for film, as was An Awfully Big Adventure, which starred Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman. Beryl Bainbridge died in July 2010.

Amanda Craig is a British novelist, short-story writer and critic. After a brief time in advertising and PR, she became a journalist for newspapers such as the Sunday Times, Observer, Daily Telegraph and Independent, winning both the Young Journalist of the Year and the Catherine Pakenham Award. Her novels Hearts and Minds and The Golden Rule were both longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and The Lie of the Land was chosen as book of the year by the Guardian, Observer, Telegraph, New Statesman, Evening Standard, Sunday Times and Irish Times.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

'A stellar literary event . . . written with panache and an enviable economy . . . the biggest risk of her literary life' Margaret Atwood

According to Queeney is a masterly evocation of the last years of Dr Johnson, arguably Britain's greatest Man of Letters. The time is the 1770s and 1780s and Johnson, having completed his life's major work (he compiled the first ever Dictionary of the English Language) is running an increasingly chaotic life. Torn between his strict morality and his undeclared passion for Mrs Thrale, the wife of an old friend, According to Queeney reveals one of Britain's most wonderful characters in all his wit and glory. Above all, though, this is a story of love and friendship and brilliantly narrated by Queeney, Mrs Thrale's daughter, looking back over her life.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Abacus
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0349114471
• ISBN 13: 9780349114477
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Hachette Ireland; info@hbgi.ie; ; 8 Castlecourt Centre, Castleknock Road, Castleknock, Dublin 15, D15 XTP3; Dublin; Irlande