The Watch Tower - Couverture souple

Harrower, Elizabeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1921922427 ISBN 13 : 9781921922428

Editeur : Text Classics, 2012

Synopsis

Book by Harrower Elizabeth

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'Elizabeth Harrower's tale of a cruel and oppressive marriage is a forgotten gem of Australian literature... Harrower captures brilliantly the struggle to retain a self amid both domestic and global conflict.' --The Observer (30 June)

'A stunning book... In Australia I think we make a habit of forgetting the writers who should form the canon of Australian literature. We forget our writers, and I think, especially our women writers. The Watch Tower is a revelation. It's searing, not only in its depiction of a Sydney summer but of the fate of women, trapped in the domestic sphere. It's a stop-your-heart kind of book.' --The Guardian

'Roaring out of 40 years in obscurity, Elizabeth Harrower's The Watch Tower is a beautifully written, utterly hypnotic account of two Australian girls' abandonment by their manicure-admiring mother and subsequent drift towards annihilation at the hands of the eldest's viciously craven husband.' --Irish Times (29 November)

'What a discovery! Harrower&aposs voice in this book is disconcerting at first: almost fatigued, as though she knows that everything to come is fated to be so and there&aposs little to do but tell the story. And her characters, two young sisters, likewise passively accept the events that befall them. This fatalism is absorbing, though, as you watch the women move slowly through a comatose state into a kind of awakening. In fact, the story reminded me at times of A Doll&aposs House, namely in the younger sister&aposs internal striving for selfhood and independence, but the long tale of the sisters subjugation is far more excruciating than what Ibsen imagined.' --Nicole Rudick in The Paris Review

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Set in the leafy northern suburbs of Sydney during the 1940s, The Watch Tower is a novel of relentless and acute psychological power. Following their father's death, Laura and Clare are withdrawn from their elite private boarding school by their mother. As their mother slowly withdraws from them, the two are left to fend for themselves. Laura's boss Felix is there to help, even offering to marry Laura if she will have him. However Felix is not all that he seems and little by little the two sisters grow complicit with his obsessions, his cruelty and his need to control.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Text Classics
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1921922427
• ISBN 13: 9781921922428
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 338