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Unusual book
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Présentation de l'éditeur
From the author of The Gustav Sonata
Fat and fifty, educated only to be a wife and mother, Ruby Constad has reached a point of crisis. Her husband, Leon, lies in a nursing home after a stroke that has left him paralysed; her grown-up children are gone. In her anguish Ruby appeals for help to a half-remembered figure from her colonial Indian girlhood - Sister Benedicta. Gradually the events leading up to Leon's stroke are revealed and a woman emerges whose capacity to love, hope and understand are far greater than she realises.
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Biographie de l'auteur
Rose Tremain’s bestselling novels have been published in thirty countries and have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country); Restoration was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and was appointed Chancellor of the University of East Anglia in 2013. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.
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- ÉditeurSinclair-Stevenson Ltd
- Date d'édition1995
- ISBN 10 1856195937
- ISBN 13 9781856195935
- ReliureRelié
- Nombre de pages176
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Letter to Sister Benedicta (Sinclair-Stevenson Collector's Editions)
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Letter to Sister Benedicta
Edité par
Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd, 1995
ISBN 10 : 1856195937
ISBN 13 : 9781856195935
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Couverture rigide
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Hardcover. Etat : Used: Acceptable. Hardback with D/J, book good but some staining and creasing to D/J. 1995 Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd edition. . Ruby has reached a point of crisis. Fat and 50, educated only to look after her family, she can see no future. In her imagination she turns to Sister Benedicta. As Ruby starts to tell her everything, it is clear that Ruby has a capacity to love and understand that is far greater than she imagined. 'It is a joy to read from beginning to end' Auberon Waugh 'Miss Tremain does something to restore my confidence in the vitality of the English novel.Letter to Sister Benedicta should be seen as a triumph of the human spirit over the afflictions which beset us' Auberon Waugh Fat and fifty, educated only to be a wife and mother, Ruby Constad has reached a point of crisis. Her husand, Leon, lies in a nursing home after a stroke that has left him paralysed; her grown-up children are gone. In her anguish Ruby appeals for help to a half-remembered figure from her colonial Indian girlhood - Sister Benedicta. Gradually, the events leading up to Leon's stroke are revealed and a woman emerges whose capacity to love, hope and understand are far greater than she realises. 'An original talent clears the hurdle of a second novel with pathos and humour' Guardian 'The fact that Ruby Constad emerges so strong and devoid of self-pity makes her one of the most generous and complete of modern heroines' The Times. Fiction. 1-85619-593-7. N° de réf. du vendeur 16351
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