Testimonies: A Novel - Couverture souple

OBrian, Patrick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393313166 ISBN 13 : 9780393313161

Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 1995

Synopsis

"A welcome reissue of O'Brian's moving and very fine first novel" Kirkus ReviewsDelmore Schwartz, the most influential critic in postwar America, wrote of Patrick O'Brian's first novel Testimonies: "A triumph . . . drawn forward by lyric eloquence and the story's fascination, [the reader] discovers in the end that he has encountered in a new way the sphinx and the riddle of existence itself." Schwartz' imagination was fired by this sinister tale of love and death set in Wales, a timeless story with echoes of Thomas Hardy and Mary Webb. Joseph Pugh, sick of Oxford and of teaching, decides to take some time off to live in a wild and beautiful Welsh farm valley. There he falls physically ill and is nursed back to health by Bronwen Vaughn, the wife of a neighboring farmer. Slowly, unwillingly, Bronwen and Pugh fall in love; and while that word is never spoken between them, their story is as passionate and as tragic as that of Vronsky and Anna Karenina.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O'Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Company
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393313166
• ISBN 13: 9780393313161
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 228
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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