The Servants' Quarters - Couverture souple

Freed, Lynn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0547336039 ISBN 13 : 9780547336039

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2010

Synopsis

The Servants’ Quarters, a complex and sophisticated love story, evokes a vanishing world of privilege with a Pygmalion twist.

Haunted by phantoms of the Second World War and the Holocaust, young Cressida lives in terror of George Harding, who, severely disfigured, has returned from the front to recover in his family’s stately African home. When he plucks young Cressida’s beautiful mother and her family from financial ruin, establishing them in the old servants’ quarters of his estate, Cressida is swept into a future inexorably bound to his.

In the new setting, she finds that she is, after all, indentured. She is conscripted to enliven George Harding’s nephew, the hopelessly timid Edgar, to make him "wild and daring." And she takes on this task with resentful fury, leading the boy astray and, in the process, learning to manipulate differences in power, class, background, and ambition.

Only slowly does she come to understand that George Harding himself is watching her. And waiting.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

LYNN FREED is the author of five highly praised novels, a short story collection, and a collection of essays. She was the recipient of the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Society of Arts and Letters.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0547336039
• ISBN 13: 9780547336039
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 224
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