Faith Compton Mackenzie

Tatting and Mandolinata (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Tatting uses thread to weave intricate patterns in knotwork. This idiosyncratic novel from 1957 by Faith Compton Mackenzie traces patterns across the Cornish landscape in the style of David Garnett and Sylvia Townsend Warner.

It is 1909. Ariadne is a starving Irish artist, existing on her memories of having once known Beardsley and Wilde. In comes Laura Mallory to visit her, and discreetly goes to the grocer to buy food and pay Ariadne's bill. Laura has recently married Guy, a poetwhom she had met only weeks before. Relieved to not have to pay rent for the summer or have to finally learn to cook, Guy and Laura travel to Cornwall on the invitation of Father St John to come and stay at his vicarage. There is a large Alsatian called Rex who wants only to roam the fields at night, and there is a large farmer called Mr Williams who hides in ditches rather than meet the ladies. Miss Josephine Want, a domineering parishioner, is fuming at the unwanted visitors, and then Guy and Laura invite Ariadne to Cornwall to paint a fresco and be fed. The visit of the triumphantly parasitical artist causes havoc.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Handheld Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781912766857
• Artikelnr.: 68281255

Autorenporträt

Faith Compton Mackenzie (1878-1960) was the first wife of celebrated novelist Compton Mackenzie, author of Whisky Galore! and many other works. She was a close friend of Norman Douglas whom she had met while living on Capri in 1918. She lived in the wake of her husband's enthusiasms for island living. An accomplished pianist and gardener, she was the author of music criticism, several biographies, a collection of short stories, and two novels. Tatting was her last work, based on the first months of her marriage.

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