Ann-Marie Macdonald

Adult Onset

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of two beloved classics, Fall On Your Knees and The Way the Crow Flies, Adult Onset is a powerful drama that makes vividly real the pressures of life and love, and the undercurrents that run deep through even the most devoted families.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tin House Books
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 146mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9781941040058
• ISBN-10: 1941040055
• Artikelnr.: 41757800

Autorenporträt

Ann-Marie MacDonald is an author, actor, playwright, and broadcaster. Her first novel, "Fall on Your Knees" was a critically acclaimed "New York Times" bestseller. It won the Commonwealth Prize, was short-listed for the Giller Prize, and won the People s Choice Award and the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year. In 2002 it became an Oprah s Book Club selection. It has been translated into 19 languages. Her second novel, "The Way the Crow Flies" was an "New York Times" bestseller, a finalist for the Giller Prize, and a Good Morning America Book Club pick. It has been translated into 13 languages. Her first solo-authored play, "Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)" won the Chalmers Award, the Governor General s Award, and the Canadian Authors Association Award. Her other works for the stage include the libretto for the chamber opera Nigredo Hotel, book and lyrics for the musical "Anything that Moves" (which garnered several Dora Awards, including Outstanding New Musical), and "Belle Moral: A Natural History." She lives in Montreal with her partner and their two children. "

Rezensionen

Beautifully rendered... frank and acidly funny... It's a large-hearted, resonant novel, filled with an interiority that opens out - a generous work. Guardian