Pinkerton's Sister - Couverture souple

Rushforth, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1931561990 ISBN 13 : 9781931561990

Editeur : MacAdam/Cage Publishing, Incorporated, 2005

Synopsis

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Quatrième de couverture

New York at the turn of the century, a city bursting with new life as the old century's order makes way for the new. But in the Pinkerton household a nineteenth-century embarrassment remains: Alice Pinkerton, spinster daughter of a wealthy mercantile family.
Though her neighbours consider her a simpleton, in reality Alice's mind is razor-sharp. She is thirty-five years of age, and all she has is her books. Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe are her inspiration; Jane Eyre, Maggie Tulliver her companions, nourishing her lonely life. And as she moves through the witless world around her, observing its prejudices, its shallow culture, its hatred of truth, she transports those who belittle her into these books, where they can no longer hide, forced to reveal their true characters.
Twenty-five years in the writing, heartbreakingly funny, fiercely intelligent, Pinkerton's Sister is an extraordinary work of imagination, about imagination.

'From the very first paragraph of this richly textured, highly literary and musical novel…I found myself absorbed into a bizarre and unsettling world, utterly unlike anything I have read…Pinkerton's Sister is a disturbing, brilliant and rewarding read' Independent
'Perfected prose…As an account of the growth of a mind it is quite exceptional… Rushforth has taken his time and produced a book almost entirely lacking in the usual qualities of the contemporary English novel. Thank goodness' Guardian
'In 1979 Peter Rushforth's first novel won the Hawthornden Prize. He has been writing this second one ever since, and the quarter of a century's work has made Pinkerton's Sister into a magnificent achievement' Sunday Telegraph
'A treasure trove of a novel, complex, rich and satisfying' Susan Hill

Présentation de l'éditeur

It's turn-of-the-century New York, a city bursting with new life as the old century's order makes way for the mercantile class. But in the Pinkerton household a nineteenth-century embarrassment remains. Alice Pinkerton. Alice isn't mad exactly, but she's not sane either. She is tolerated, free to wander about, free to accompany her family to tea parties - free to be treated like a simpleton.
But in truth Alice's mind is razor sharp, honed by a restless imagination, years of reading and a profound contempt for her surroundings. Left alone to read, to think, she has devoured the world that brings her mind alive: Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Michelangelo, Whitman, Poe, they are her inspiration; Jane Eyre, Catherine Moreland, Desdemona her companions. As she moves through the witless world around her, observing its prejudices, its shallow culture and its vanity, it is society that prompts her observations, viewing all through the prism of the art that has sustained and nourished her lonely life.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: MacAdam/Cage Publishing, Incorporated
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1931561990
• ISBN 13: 9781931561990
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 729
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible