Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead - Couverture souple

Comyns, Barbara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0860686779 ISBN 13 : 9780860686774

Editeur : Virago, 1987

Synopsis

Originally published in 1954, this strange novel with its macabre humour, speaks with Barbara Comyns' unique and magical voice.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Comyns was born in Warwickshire in 1909. She worked in advertising, dealt in old cars and antiques, bred poodles, and developed property. She and her second husband lived in Spain for eighteen years. Comyns died in 1992.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

At the beginning of June the river floods, ducks swim through the drawing-room windows and Ebin Willowd rows his daughters round the submerged garden. The grandmother dresses in magenta for her seventy-first birthday whist drive and looks forward to the first prize of pate de fois gras. Later Ives the gardener leads a morose procession up river, dragging her to a funeral in a black-draped punt. The miller goes mad and drowns himself and a cottage is set alight. Villagers keep dying and at the house on a river, plates are thrown across the luncheon table and a tortoise through a window. The newspaper asks 'Who will be smitten by the fatal madness next?'

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Virago
• Date d'édition: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0860686779
• ISBN 13: 9780860686774
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible