A Kingdom - Couverture souple

Hanley, James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1908946539 ISBN 13 : 9781908946539

Editeur : Parthian Books, 2013

Synopsis

A haunting, elegiac evocation of hill-farm life, from its very first line A Kingdom is preoccupied with the connotations surrounding the word 'rooted' and with what it means, for good and ill, to be tied to such a place.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

James Hanley was born into a Liverpool-Irish family in 1897. He served at sea (and briefly in the Canadian army) during the First World War, worked at various jobs, educated himself, and began publishing fiction in the 1930s most notoriously <i>Boy</i> (1931), an unsparing account of sexual abuse on board merchant ships, which became the subject of an obscenity trial. He produced a dauntingly large output some 20 novels, plays, volumes of stories, and radio dramas, and was held in the highest regard by other novelists, including E. M. Forster, V. S. Pritchett, and Doris Lessing; his reputation was for uncompromisingly realistic accounts of working-class life (<i>The Furys</i>, 1935), of situations of extreme privation (<i>The Ocean</i>, 1941), and for compellingly intense, Camus-like portrayals of alienation and disengagement (<i>Levine</i>, 1956). A Kingdom was his last completed work, and he died in London in 1985.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Parthian Books
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1908946539
• ISBN 13: 9781908946539
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
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• Personne responsable: non disponible