Shena Mackay

The Orchard on Fire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Many regard this as Mackay's masterpiece. A touching, funny novel about childhood in the 1950s: friendship, village life and lost innocence.

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Produktdetails

• Virago Modern Classics
• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 224g
• ISBN-13: 9780349007212
• ISBN-10: 0349007217
• Artikelnr.: 44286202

Autorenporträt

Shena Mackay was born in Edinburgh in 1944. Her writing career began when she won a prize for a poem written when she was fourteen. Two novellas, Dust Falls on Eugene Schlumberger and Toddler on the Run were published before she was twenty. Redhill Rococo won the 1987 Fawcett Prize, Dunedin won a 1994 Scottish Arts Council Book Award, The Orchard on Fire was shortlisted for the 1996 Booker Prize and, in 2003, Heligoland was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and Whitbread Novel Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Southampton.