Emma Brockes

Broschiertes Buch

She Left Me the Gun

My Mother's Life Before Me

Beschreibung

She encounters versions of the life her mother chose to leave behind - and realises what a gift her mother gave her. Part investigation, part travelogue, part elegy, She Left Me the Gun is a gripping, funny and clear-eyed account of a writer's search for her mother's story.

Autor

Emma Brockes writes for the Guardian and contributes to The New York Times and The New Yorker. She is the winner of two British Press Awards (Young Journalist of the Year and Feature Writer Of the Year) and while at Oxford she won the Philip Geddes Memorial Prize for Journalism. Her last book, She Left Me The Gun, was the story of her mother's life. She lives in New York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 274g
• ISBN-13: 9780571275854
• ISBN-10: 0571275850
• Artikelnr.: 39631514

Rezensionen

Brockes grabbed my heart - and, thanks to the grace of her buoyant wit and seriously generous humour, gave it back to me beautifully bruised. This is a story I'll never forget.
Andrea Ashworth