J.R. Thorp

Broschiertes Buch

Learwife

Beschreibung

Inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear, this breathtaking debut novel tells the story of the most famous woman ever written out of literary history

Autor

J.R. Thorp is a writer, lyricist and librettist. She won the London Short Story Award in 2011 and was shortlisted for the BBC Opening Lines Prize, and has had work published in the Cambridge Literary Review, Manchester Review, antiTHESIS, Wave Composition and elsewhere. She wrote the libretto for the highly acclaimed modern opera Dear Marie Stopes and has had works commissioned by the Arts Council, the Wellcome Trust and St Paul's Cathedral. She was a Clarendon Scholar at Oxford, where she completed her PhD. Born in Australia, she now lives in Cork, Ireland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 8112
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 126mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 246g
• ISBN-13: 9781838852849
• ISBN-10: 1838852840
• Artikelnr.: 63357083

Rezensionen

Poetic . . . Distinctive and compelling . . . Thorp's poignant and surprising narrative allows a character absent from the original play to obtain her long overdue agency Observer