Beryl Bainbridge

Broschiertes Buch

An Awfully Big Adventure

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 1990

Beschreibung

'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

Autor

Beryl Bainbridge is the author of seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television. The Dressmaker, The Bottle Factory Outing, An Awfully Big Adventure, Every Man for Himself and Master Georgie (which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize) were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Every Man for Himself was awarded the Whitbread Novel of the Year Prize. She won the Guardian Fiction Prize with The Dressmaker and the Whitbread Prize with Injury Time. The Bottle Factory Outing, Sweet William and The Dressmaker have all been adapted for film, as was An Awfully Big Adventure, which starred Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman. Beryl Bainbridge died in July 2010.

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

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