Dunedin - Couverture rigide

Mackay, Shena

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0434440485 ISBN 13 : 9780434440481

Editeur : William Heinemann Ltd, 1992

Synopsis

A Presbyterian minister from Scotland arrives in 19th-century New Zealand with his unhappy wife, and enjoys the botanical and carnal pleasures of Dunedin. His expulsion from this naturalists' paradise has unpleasant consequences for his middle-aged grandchildren decades later.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Rich, vivid and dazzlingly funny, Shena Mackay's brilliant novel opens in 19th century New Zealand. Jack Mackenzie, the Presbyterian minister newly arrived from Scotland with his unhappy wife, enjoys the pleasures, botanical and carnal, that Dunedin offers. His explusion from his naturalist's Eden has consquences he never dreams of. Decades later, in London, his grandchildren, middle-aged and with life evaporating before them, search for love. Olive, embittered and lonely, tries to find it with Terry, an ambitious young writer in flight from his aged parents' mobile home, and more dangerously, with a baby she snatches on a crowded tube train. Her brother William, dessicated with grief for the death of a former pupil, has abandoned his job as hedmaster. There is also Jay Pascal, a young New Zealand va grant of mysterious parentage, whose homelessness leads to a terrifying incarceration.

Biographie de l'auteur

Shena Mackay is the author of novellas, collections of short stories and several novels. Heligoland was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: William Heinemann Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0434440485
• ISBN 13: 9780434440481
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible