Moon Tiger - Couverture souple

Lively, Penelope

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0802135331 ISBN 13 : 9780802135339

Editeur : Grove Press, 1997

Synopsis

"A powerful, moving and beautifully wrought novel about the ways in which lives are molded by personal memory and the collective past."--Boston Globe

Winner of the Booker Prize - Shortlisted for the Golden Man Booker Prize

The masterpiece of one of the century's finest novelists--a deftly crafted journey through memory and across decades, between England and Egypt

Elderly, uncompromising Claudia Hampton lies in a London hospital bed with memories of life fluttering through her fading consciousness. An author of popular history, Claudia proclaims she's carrying out her last project: a history of the world. This history turns out to be a mosaic of her own life and the lives of those important to her. At its center is Tom--her one great love, found and lost in war-torn Egypt.
Always the independent woman, often with contentious relationships, Claudia's personal history is complex and fascinating. As people visit Claudia, they shake and twist the mosaic, changing speed, movement, and voice to reveal themselves and Claudia's impact on their world.
A classic of the late 20th century, Moon Tiger is a haunting, evocative, and dazzlingly original story of loss and desire.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Penelope Lively's Booker Prize winning classic, Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss and desire.Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying.But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world . . . and in the process, my own'. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. But Claudia's life is entwined with others and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak, to put across their point of view. There is Gordon, brother and adversary; Jasper, her untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool conventional daughter; and then there is Tom, her one great love, found and lost in wartime Egypt.'Leaves its traces in the air long after you've put it away' Anne Tyler'A complex tapestry of great subtlety. Lively writes so well, savouring the words as she goes' Daily Telegraph'Very clever: evocative, thought-provoking and hangs on the mind long after it is finished' Literary ReviewPenelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger. Her other books include Going Back; Judgement Day; Next to Nature, Art; Perfect Happiness; Passing On; City of the Mind; Cleopatra's Sister; Heat Wave; Beyond the Blue Mountains, a collection of short stories; Oleander, Jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in Egypt; Spiderweb; her autobiographical work, A House Unlocked; The Photograph; Making It Up; Consequences; Family Album, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel Award, and How It All Began. She is a popular writer for children and has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. She was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year's Honours List, and DBE in 2012. Penelope Lively lives in London.

Revue de presse

Leaves its traces in the air long after you've put it away (Anne Tyler)

A complex tapestry of great subtlety. Lively writes so well, savouring the words as she goes (Daily Telegraph)

Very clever: evocative, thought-provoking and hangs on the mind long after it is finished (Literary Review)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Grove Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802135331
• ISBN 13: 9780802135339
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible