A Dead Language: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Rushforth, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1596921927 ISBN 13 : 9781596921924

Editeur : Macadam Cage Pub, 2006

Synopsis

Book by Rushforth Peter

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

From the author of the critically acclaimed Pinkerton's Sister comes volume two of this extraordinary sequence of novels: A Dead Language
Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton - the faithless young naval lieutenant who abandons Madam Butterfly - was glimpsed fleetingly in Peter Rushforth's previous novel, Pinkerton's Sister. Now Ben steps out of the shadows and into the centre of the stage, a young man haunted by the desolation of his boyhood years, unable to show or respond to love. He's about to sail for Japan. But his imminent departure conjures up the life he and his sister have led, and the monstrous act for which he is most remembered: the rejection and destruction of a pure and loving heart. What happened to him then will mark his whole life. He is his own man, but he is also his sister's brother.
Once again, in his mastery of language, his extraordinary imagination, his superb sense of time and place, Peter Rushforth has given the world a second masterpiece, ranking alongside, or surpassing, his earlier triumph.
Praise for Pinkerton's Sister
'A hugely impressive achievement…I am quite awed by it' Margaret Forster
'A disturbing, brilliant and rewarding read' Independent
'A masterful evocation of the entombment of an intelligent woman's mind and body… worthy of Henry James' Washington Post
'A treasure trove of a novel, complex, rich and satisfying' Susan Hill

Biographie de l'auteur

Peter Rushforth’s brilliant first novel, Kindergarten, was published in 1979 and won the Hawthornden Prize, awarded to the best work of imaginative literature. After an absence of twenty-five years he returned to the literary scene in 2004 with the epic novel Pinkerton’s Sister, which charmed critics at the Washington Post, New Yorker, and San Francisco Chronicle, and was named a BookSense selection in March 2005. In the fall of 2005 Rushforth finished a sequel to Pinkerton’s Sister, an elegant novel entitled A Dead Language.

Sadly, after making his final revisions to his work, Peter Rushforth passed away while walking on the Yorkshire Moors. A Dead Language was published posthumously in the U.K. by Simon & Schuster.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Macadam Cage Pub
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1596921927
• ISBN 13: 9781596921924
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 647