Pinkerton's Sister - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 038566348X ISBN 13 : 9780385663489

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

Though her neighbors in turn-of-the-century New York consider her a madwoman in the attic, Alice Pinkerton’s mind is razor-sharp, honed by a restless imagination, years of reading, and a profound contempt for her surroundings. Like her namesake in Through the Looking-Glass, Alice has a mirror through which to enter a different world, only for her the mirror is literature. Heartbreakingly funny and fiercely intelligent, Pinkerton’s Sister is an extraordinary work of imagination about imagination, a celebration of the power of fiction and its ultimate redeeming quality.

Détails de l'édition

• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 038566348X
• ISBN 13: 9780385663489
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 750
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible