Conditions of Faith - Couverture rigide

Miller, Alex

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0684869357 ISBN 13 : 9780684869353

Editeur : Scribner, 2000

Synopsis

Emily Stanton, an intelligent and ambitious young woman of the 1920s, discovers that her struggle for personal freedom challenges society's deeply cherished beliefs about motherhood and family, in a story revealed through a fragmentary journal.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Impulsive, idealistic and restless, Emily Stanton finds herself, with university behind her, on the threshold of life. When she is introduced to a Scottish engineer whose life in France offers the exotic, she leaves her family home in twenties Melbourne to become his wife, and to find a world of Parisian colour. But far from providing answers, marriage awakens in her an ardent desire to Film a reason for living a desire that leads her to flirt with risk, passion and unorthodox friendships and carries her to Tunisia, on a journey of self-questioning and intellectual reawakening, towards a crossroads in her life.

A mesmerizing and thought-provoking store of dreams, obsessions and destiny, Conditions of Faith is a major new work by this prize-winning Australian novelist.

Biographie de l'auteur

Alex Millet grew up in London, but when he was seventeen left alone for Australia. His four previous novels include The Ancestor Game, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. He now lives in Melbourne.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Scribner
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0684869357
• ISBN 13: 9780684869353
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 347
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible