IF THE INVADER COMES - Couverture souple

Beaven

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1841155926 ISBN 13 : 9781841155920

Editeur : Fourth Estate, 2011

Synopsis

A critically acclaimed, Booker long-listed novel that is reminiscent of Pat Barker’s ‘Regeneration Trilogy’.

Clarice Pike and Vic Warren are from completely different backgrounds. An impossible affair has already driven them thousands of miles apart. 1939 finds Clarice in Malaya where her father is an obscure company doctor, and Vic in East London, an unemployed shipwright badly married to Phylis, Clarice’s cousin. As their feelings conspire to draw the lovers back together, the world erupts with a terrible violence. It is the relentlessness of male brutality that forces Vic to grope towards what real manhood might be.

‘If the Invader Comes’ combines themes from Derek Beaven’s previously acclaimed ‘Newton’s Niece’ and ‘Acts of Mutiny’ to portray a wartime England where human relationships are threatened as much from within the family as from occupied Europe. Exciting, moving and ultimately optimistic, Derek Beaven’s new novel represents a daring leap in British fiction.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Derek Beaven lives in Maidenhead, Berkshire. His first novel, ‘Newton’s Niece’ (1994), was shotlisted for the Writers’ Guild Best Novel Prize and won a Commonwealth Prize. ‘Acts of Mutiny’ was published in 1999, followed by the Booker long-listed novel, ‘If the Invader Comes’ (2001), and ‘His Coldest Winter’ (2005).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fourth Estate
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1841155926
• ISBN 13: 9781841155920
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
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