The Dead of Winter - Couverture souple

Cooper, Dominic

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 057113601X ISBN 13 : 9780571136018

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 1985

Synopsis

Book by Cooper Dominic

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

WINNER THE SOMERSET MAUGHAN AWARD 1976 Night is falling on the island village of Cragaig. All around this small clifftop habitation, the wild land was working day and night over the centuries, silently, imperceptibly, to reclaim what it knew to be its own. The years had whittled away at the village until only its strongest and most tenacious inhabitant was left. Alasdair Mòr, great in love as he was great in strength, held on to this life with a steeled and unmoving passion. For 45 years Alasdair's life had been one of peace and small pleasures with the land but now he feels himself exposed to a threat from outside - a crazed incomer who seems to know neither fear nor sense. Turning his back on the calm of the fisherman's life, Alasdair's desire is to root out this threat, to chase it away . . . Neither man nor storm will drive him from his home.

Revue de presse

Vigorous narrative, at times positively heroic, is but one of Mr Cooper's formidable skills. --New Statesman

The whole book is full of the sights and sounds and smells of a Hebridean island and an almost medieval sense of kinship with beasts and birds and the land itself which effectively contribute to the fabulous nature of the story. --Scotsman

That it s possible to be completely original within the confines of formal fiction is demonstrated with great force by Dominic Cooper's outstanding first novel. --Suunday Times

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 1985
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 057113601X
• ISBN 13: 9780571136018
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible