Beryl Bainbridge

Broschiertes Buch

The Bottle Factory Outing

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 1974

Beschreibung

This wonderful novel showing Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic best - out for the first time as an Abacus paperback

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: Abacus / Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 131mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780349123714
• ISBN-10: 0349123713
• Artikelnr.: 31193659

Rezensionen

This is a superb novel. It is taut in construction, expansive in characterization, vibrant in atmosphere and profoundly comic The Times