A Compass Error: A Novel - Couverture souple

Bedford, Sybille

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1582431590 ISBN 13 : 9781582431598

Editeur : Counterpoint, 2001

Synopsis

Book by Bedford Sybille

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Sybille Bedford was born in 1911 in Charlottenburg, Germany, the daughter of a German father and an English mother. She grew up in Italy, France and England. A Visit to Don Otavio was her first published book in 1953, and she followed it with three novels, A Legacy (1956), A Favourite of the Gods (1963) and A Compass Error (1968). Her semi-autobiographical novel, Jigsaw, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989. Her memoir, Quicksands, was published in 2005. Sybille Bedford died in 2006.

Présentation de l'éditeur

As the Second World War looms, Flavia is living in a small village in the South of France. She studies for her Oxford entrance, swims in the sea, eats at local cafés, and lives with all the confidence and relish of youth.

Drawn into the demi-monde of artists and writers, Flavia is awoken to the pleasures and complications of adult life. Her world is overturned when she becomes fascinated by Andrée – beautiful, sophisticated, yet manipulative – and is caught up in a devastating intrigue.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Counterpoint
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1582431590
• ISBN 13: 9781582431598
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 221
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible