The Children's Book - Couverture rigide

Byatt, A S

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0701183896 ISBN 13 : 9780701183899

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 2009

Synopsis

A new masterpiece by the author of Possession about family secrets, predators and innocents, war and peace, art and society.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

A.S. Byatt is internationally acclaimed as a novelist, short story-writer and critic. Her books include Possession, and the quartet of The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman. She was appointed DBE in 1999.

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

Olive Wellwood is a famous writer, interviewed with her children gathered at her knee. For each of them she writes a separate private book, bound in different colours and placed on a shelf. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh they play in a story-book world - but their lives, and those of their rich cousins, children of a city stockbroker, and their friends, the son and daughter of a curator at the new Victoria and Albert Museum, are already inscribed with mystery.Each family carries their own secrets.

Into their world comes a young stranger, a working-class boy from the potteries, drawn by the beauty of the Museum's treasures. And in midsummer a German puppeteer arrives, bringing dark dramas. The world seems full of promise but the calm is already rocked by political differences, by Fabian arguments about class and free love , by the idealism of anarchists from Russia and Germany. The sons rebel against their parents' plans; the girls dream of independent futures, becoming doctors or fighting for the vote.

This vivid, rich and moving saga is played out against the great, rippling tides of the day, taking us from the Kent marshes to Paris and Munich and the trenches of the Somme. Born at the end of the Victorian era, growing up in the golden summers of Edwardian times, a whole generation were heading to the darkness of the First World War; in their innocence, they were betrayed unintentionally by the adults who loved them. In a profound sense, this novel is indeed the children's book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0701183896
• ISBN 13: 9780701183899
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 624
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible