The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws - Couverture rigide

Drabble, Margaret

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ISBN 10 : 0547241445 ISBN 13 : 9780547241449

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009

Synopsis

The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws is an original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her and many others relief from melancholy and depression. Alongside curious facts and discoveries about jigsaw puzzles — did you know that the 1929 stock market crash was followed by a boom in puzzle sales? — Drabble introduces us to her beloved Auntie Phyl, and describes childhood visits to the house in Long Bennington on the Great North Road, their first trip to London together, the books they read, the jigsaws they completed. She offers penetrating sketches of her parents, her siblings, and her children; she shares her thoughts on the importance of childhood play, on art and writing, on aging and memory. And she does so with her customary intelligence, energy, and wit. This is a memoir like no other.

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Revue de presse

PRAISE FOR MARGARET DRABBLE:

"Reading Margaret Drabble's novels has become something of a rite of passage.... Sharply observed, exquisitely companionable tales of women of a certain age and class, educated, egocentric, strong, unlucky in love." --The Washington Post

"Drabble's fiction has achieved a panoramic vision of contemporary life." --The Chicago Tribune

"As meticulous as Jane Austen, and as deadly as Evelyn Waugh." --The Los Angeles Times

"Margaret Drabble will have done for late twentieth-century London what Dickens did for Victorian London." --The New York Times Praise for THE SEA LADY: "The language of science mixes with that of religion to produce a holistic, humanistic resolution worthy of that great poet Wordsworth...[Drabble] has created a true thing of beauty." --Martin Rubin, Los Angeles Times "A thoroughly enchanting blend of scientific erudition, social satire and domestic comedy from a novelist who continues to surprise us...The genius of [Drabble's] prose is an ability to be incisive and satiric without sticking her characters on the end of a pin...--Ron Charles, Washington Post Book World "[A] tour de force...With lyrical originality Drabble captures the idealistic, eternally self-absorbed paradoxes of the aging baby-boom generation. The result, like its contradictory protagonists, is as sensual as a moonlit beach, as bracing as an offshore wind." --People (four stars)

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws is an original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her and many others relief from melancholy and depression. Alongside curious facts and discoveries about jigsaw puzzles — did you know that the 1929 stock market crash was followed by a boom in puzzle sales? — Drabble introduces us to her beloved Auntie Phyl, and describes childhood visits to the house in Long Bennington on the Great North Road, their first trip to London together, the books they read, the jigsaws they completed. She offers penetrating sketches of her parents, her siblings, and her children; she shares her thoughts on the importance of childhood play, on art and writing, on aging and memory. And she does so with her customary intelligence, energy, and wit. This is a memoir like no other.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0547241445
• ISBN 13: 9780547241449
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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