Lost Property - Couverture souple

Beatty, Laura

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1786497409 ISBN 13 : 9781786497406

Editeur : Atlantic Books, 2020

Synopsis

In the middle of her life, a writer finds herself in a dark wood, despairing at how modern Britain has become a place of such greed and indifference. In an attempt to understand her country and her species, she and her lover rent a busted-out van and journey through France and down to the Mediterranean, across Italy and the Balkans, finishing in Greece and its islands. Along the way, they drive through the Norman Conquest, the Hundred Years War, the Italian Renaissance, the 1990s and on to the current refugee crisis, encountering the shades of history, sometimes figuratively and sometimes--such as Joan of Arc, sitting pertly in the back of the van--quite literally. As she roadtrips through 10,000 years of civilization, watching humanity repeat itself with wars over borderlines and exceed itself with the creation of timeless art, the writer begins to reckon with the very worst and the very best in our collective natures--and it is in seeing the beauty beside the ugliness, the light among the trees, that she begins to see, finally, a way for her to go home.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Laura Beatty is the author of Pollard, a novel that won the Authors' Club First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize. She has also written two biographies, the first about Lillie Langtry and the second about Anne Boleyn.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Atlantic Books
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1786497409
• ISBN 13: 9781786497406
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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