Beryl Bainbridge

An Awfully Big Adventure

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 1990

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'This is one of Bainbridge's best books. The close observation and hilarity are underlain by a sense of tragedy as deep as any in fiction' THE TIMES

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 126mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 172g
• ISBN-13: 9780349116150
• ISBN-10: 0349116156
• Artikelnr.: 21855185

Autorenporträt

Beryl Bainbridge wrote seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and won literary awards including the Whitbread Prize and the Author of the Year Award at the British Book Awards. She died in July 2010.

Rezensionen

Acknowledged as one of the best novelists of her generation...Beryl's literary fiction can have a quality of a detective story: only when we reach a novel's final denouement do we see that we were given the key to its coded mystery at the start. A certain menace emanates from a story's first page and builds almost imperceptibly to its climax in a refined but savage violence Guardian