Bonfire Night - Couverture souple

Bliss, Anna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1496747348 ISBN 13 : 9781496747341

Editeur : A John Scognamiglio Book, 2023

Synopsis

One romance, two faiths, many forms of love...

Spanning from England's anti-fascism protests of 1936 through the aftermath of WWII, this moving, intricately wrought historical novel brings together a young Irish Catholic photographer and a British Jewish medical student, each discovering the price of love, art, and ambition.

“A most tender work of art, providing a heartrending look at a couple in love while the world implodes and explodes around them. Bonfire Night is a treasure of a novel, beautifully written with the unflinching style and subtle psychological insights of such masters as Ian McEwan and Graham Swift.” –NATALIE JENNER, internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society and Bloomsbury Girls

London, 1936: At twenty-one, Kate Grifferty is a press photographer in a Fleet Street agency, an unusual job for a young woman. But Kate is both talented and daring, recklessly going wherever the story might be—including, one October day, to an anti-fascism protest in East London. There, she meets David Rabatkin, a brilliant Jewish medical student. While his idealistic brother is eager to go to Spain and join the fight for the Republic, David knows where his path lies: at home, fulfilling the expectations of his profession and his family.

Kate is exposed for the first time to the dangers and demands of David’s world, where marrying within the Jewish faith is seen as not only preferable, but key to survival. Kate neither expects nor wants to be any man’s wife, hampered by convention. And though she and David are both outsiders, as war looms, other differences between them are thrown into sharp relief.

Brighton, 1940: Catastrophe forces Kate to flee London and the onslaught of war finds her working at her sister’s seaside boarding house, while David tends patients at a busy London hospital as the Blitz rages. But Kate’s challenges and disappointments have only deepened her desire to capture images of life unfurling around her, the beauty and violence, struggles and surprising joys. And soon fate and ambition will align, providing her with the chance to make her mark at last . . .

“[A] tender debut about the price of female ambition….At times wrenching but also emotionally rewarding.” – Toronto Star

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anna Bliss is a graduate of UC Santa Barbara and the University of Sussex, where she wrote her dissertation on women’s narratives of the London Blitz during World War II. An alumna of the juried Northern California Writers’ Retreat, she also has studied at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Social Welfare, the American Jewish University, and the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and sons and can be found online at AnnaBlissAuthor.com and on instagram @annablissauthor.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: A John Scognamiglio Book
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1496747348
• ISBN 13: 9781496747341
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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