Where the Apple Ripens & Other Stories - Couverture souple

Kesson, Jessie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1853815004 ISBN 13 : 9781853815003

Editeur : Virago Pr, 1993

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Collection of short stories which draw heavily upon Jessie Kesson's own experiences of growing up in a small town in Scotland. The title story, Where the Apple Ripens, is the story of Isabel Emslie, a young girl facing up to her last day at school and an uncertain future in service in the town. On the very threshold of womanhood, Isabel's overwhelming zest for life and desire for new experiences leads her to the door of the local Lothario. An intense, highly charged view of rural Scotland, where sensuality wars against Calvinistic repression, this novella is one of Jessie Kesson's finest achievements.

Biographie de l'auteur

Jessie Kesson was born in Inverness in 1916 and spent her early childhood in Elgin with her mother (she never knew her father) until she was sent to the orphanage in Aberdeenshire. After leaving school she entered service, and in 1934 moved to a farm with her husband, who was a cottar. She combined a successful writing career with a variety of jobs, from cleaner to artist's model, and was a social worker for nearly twenty years, settling finally in London with her husband. She died in 1994.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Virago Pr
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1853815004
• ISBN 13: 9781853815003
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 159
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible