Kate's Daughter: The Real Catherine Cookson - Couverture rigide

Cookson, Catherine

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0593051416 ISBN 13 : 9780593051412

Editeur : Bantam Press, 2003

Synopsis

"Kate's Daughter" gets to the heart of the Catherine Cookson story. With the help of material only made available since Catherine's death, Piers Dudgeon, lifts the veil on the myth and lays bare the true nature of this complex and fascinating woman. When it was known that "Kate's Daughter" was being written, close family made contact with the author to unburden themselves of material they had always refused to share when Catherine was alive. People who knew her when she was a child and at every stage of her life also came forward to set the record straight. Meanwhile Catherine's written records, letters and diaries, only recently lodged in the Catherine Cookson archive at the University of Boston, were made available. What emerges is a documentary portrait, illustrated with contemporary photographs (many provided by her family and never seen before), shot through with a psychological dimension that explains for the first time the fears that cast Catherine into the nightmare of mental breakdown and strung the very darkest veins of autobiography in her novels.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Born into the bleak industrial heartland of Tyneside in 1906, an illegitimate child with the courage to escape and discover her true self, denies her people, reaches rock bottom, and then writes her way back into their hearts as Catherine Cookson. Illustrated with 25 striking personal photographs, this is the REAL Jarrow Lass of Janet MacLeod Trotter's bestselling trilogy, the ultimate rags-to-riches romance delivered hard-edged by folk who lived in the same street as Catherine as a child and knew first-hand the pain that hardship and alienation brings.

Biographie de l'auteur

Piers Dudgeon is a publisher and the author of 30 works of non-fiction. He knew Catherine Cookson from 1984 until her death in 1998 and interviewed her at length. When she died she left him a collection of tapes which she made to elaborate on many of the subjects they discussed, and seven solid silver awards given to her by her publishers to mark the multi-million sales of her novels.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bantam Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0593051416
• ISBN 13: 9780593051412
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Éditeur: Dudgeon Piers
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible