Searching for the Secret River: The Story Behind the Bestselling Novel - Couverture souple

Grenville, Kate

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1847670024 ISBN 13 : 9781847670021

Editeur : Canongate Books, 2007

Synopsis

*NEW NOVEL RESTLESS DOLLY MAUNDER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024*
FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AND WOMEN'S PRIZE-WINNING AUSTRALIAN NOVELIST

Kate Grenville's The Secret River was one of the most loved novels of 2006. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and awarded the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, the story of William Thornhill and his journey from London to the other side of the world has moved and exhilarated hundreds of thousands of readers.

Searching for the Secret River tells the story of how Grenville came to write this wonderful book. It is in itself an amazing story, beginning with Grenville's great-great-great grandfather. Grenville starts to investigate her ancestor, hoping to understand his life. She pursues him from Sydney to London and back, and slowly she begins to realise she must write about him. Searching for the Secret River maps this creative journey into fiction, and illuminates the importance of family in all our lives.

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À propos de l'auteur

Kate Grenville's bestselling novel The Secret River received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. The Idea of Perfection won the Women's Prize. Grenville's other novels include Sarah Thornhill, The Lieutenant, Lilian's Story, Dark Places, Joan Makes History and A Room Made of Leaves. Her 2024 novel Restless Dolly Maunder was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction.

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The story behind The Secret River

"A novel everyone should read." Irish Times

Shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize

In the summer of 2000, award-winning novelist Kate Grenville decided to open the closed door of her family history. Who was her great-great-great grandfather, Solomon Wiseman, a Thames boatman sent as a convict to Australia in 1806? The answers to this question were revelatory. From the bones of his life a novel slowly evolved: The Secret River.

This is the story of Grenville's investigation, a memoir of the writing process through false starts, wrong turns and exhilarating breakthroughs. It is a remarkable journey of discovery around the globe, across the generations and into fiction.

"Here is someone who can really write."
Peter Carey

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Canongate Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1847670024
• ISBN 13: 9781847670021
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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