Veronica, Or the Two Nations - Couverture souple

Caute, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0586089411 ISBN 13 : 9780586089415

Editeur : Flamingo, 1993

Synopsis

In this novel about incest, politics and self-destruction, a family catastrophe confronts Michael Parsons, a lonely, yet unscrupulous boy, with the knowledge that the object of his sexual passion is also his sister. The author also wrote "News from Nowhere" and "The Women's Hour".

A propos du livre

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Michael Parsons never knew he had a half-sister until Veronica arrived on the eve of the Second World War – and not until his parents were dead did he discover the full truth about her parentage. A lonely, timed yet unscrupulous fifteen-year old boy is perhaps not best equipped to deal with the knowledge that the object of his sexual passion is also his sister – and the effects of that private passion are deeply but fatally hidden in the public man who emerges, forty years later, as a senior figure in Mrs Thatcher's Cabinet
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The Women's Hour' and 'News From Nowhere' are also available in Flamingo

'Defiantly intelligent and an instantly absorbing read'
NEW STATESMAN

'A glorious exception, a British political plot you can get through without falling over horse-laughing. What knocks the dust off it is the extraordinary incest story it comes wrapped around and the way Caute presses the illicit union to speak allegorically of working-class narcissism, self-serving legislation, and of the unspeakable private motives of our masters.'
OBSERVER

'A political thriller and a great deal more besides…plenty of entertainment value and a properly orchestrated climax'
FINANCIAL TIMES

'Intelligent, provoking, above all beautifully structured'
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Flamingo
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0586089411
• ISBN 13: 9780586089415
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible