Orkney - Couverture rigide

Sackville, Amy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1619021196 ISBN 13 : 9781619021198

Editeur : Counterpoint LLC, 2013

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"Poetic, dreamlike and beautifully written." --The Times

"In her adept hands this lyrical tale of a honeymooning professor and his enigmatic young bride brings the murky maritime beauty of the remote Scottish Archipelago to life." --Vogue

"Lyrical and compelling ... readers will be gripped from start to finish ... Orkney is entirely original. Sackville s beautiful and poignant novel reminds us of the real nature of tradition, which is not only to insist on retelling old stories, but also to remake them in our own image, for our own time ... In Orkney myth slips free from the dust and politesse of the library, and assumes a vivid, dangerous and unparaphraseable existence." --Times Literary Supplement

'A haunting novel set on a beautifully described remote island in Orkney ... It's like a folk ballad, full of otherworldly emotion and strange impulses. -Marie Claire

Delicate and haunting... With this intense, daring book, Sackville - already a writer of promise - has shown how very good she can be.' --Daily Telegraph

'Sackville clearly has a gift for the poetic, writing beautifully of everything she touches upon.' --Sunday Times

Présentation de l'éditeur :

On a remote island in Orkney, a curiously-matched couple arrive on their honeymoon. He is an eminent literature professor; she was his pale, enigmatic star pupil. Alone beneath the shifting skies of this untethered landscape, the professor realises how little he knows about his new bride and yet, as the days go by and his mind turns obsessively upon the creature who has so beguiled him, she seems to slip ever further from his yearning grasp. Where does she come from? Why did she ask him to bring her north? What is it that constantly draws her to the sea?

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Counterpoint LLC
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1619021196
• ISBN 13: 9781619021198
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 253