Gutenberg's Apprentice - Couverture souple

Christie, Alix

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 147222017X ISBN 13 : 9781472220172

Editeur : Headline Review, 2014

Synopsis

'Sophisticated and moving... Powerful' Sunday Times

A powerful historical novel about a young German scribe apprenticed to one of history's most extraordinary characters, Johann Gutenberg, creator of the first printed Bibles. Dramatic, colourful, historically accurate, the novel is both gripping and informative, bringing to life a period of unprecedented change in Europe and beyond.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Alix Christie is a journalist and writer who has lived in the USA, Paris and Berlin and is now settled in London with her husband and two children. She has been a reporter and foreign correspondent for many years, and has published widely in major international media, from the Washington Post and the Guardian to the San Francisco Chronicle and Salon.com; she regularly reviews books and arts for The Economist. In the late 1990s she began writing fiction, publishing short stories in the Southwest Review and Other Voices. Gutenberg's Apprentice is her first novel.

Alix spent five years researching the background to Gutenberg's Apprentice. A passionate printer herself, she brought her personal experience to her vivid descriptions of the travails of the early printers in the novel.

www.gutenbergsapprentice.com

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Headline Review
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 147222017X
• ISBN 13: 9781472220172
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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