Jane Gardam

The People On Privilege Hill

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Produktbeschreibung

A new collection that is a masterclass in the art of the short story from Jane Gardam, bestselling author of OLD FILTH

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abacus / Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 162g
• ISBN-13: 9780349118451
• ISBN-10: 0349118450
• Artikelnr.: 23479396

Autorenporträt

Jane Gardam is the only writer to have been twice awarded the Whitbread/Costa Prize for Best Novel of the Year, for The Queen of the Tambourine and The Hollow Land. She also holds a Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of literature. She is the author of five volumes of acclaimed stories: Black Faces, White Faces (David Higham Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize); The Pangs of Love (Katherine Mansfield Prize); Going into a Dark House (Silver Pen Award from PEN); Missing the Midnight; and The People on Privilege Hill. Her novels include God on the Rocks, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Faith Fox; The Flight of the Maidens; the bestselling Old Filth, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2005; The Man in the Wooden Hat; and Last Friends. Jane Gardam was born in Yorkshire. She now lives in east Kent.

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Rezensionen

her new collection exemplifies Gardam's zest for human oddity, which she explores with characteristic empathy and humour. LITERARY REVIEW