Beryl Bainbridge

The Dressmaker (eBook, ePUB)

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 1973

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'The book I wish I'd written . . . Witty, chilling, every word in place' Hilary Mantel, Guardian

Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naïve and withdrawn. When she meets Ira, a GI, at a neighbour's party she falls in love as much with the idea of life as a GI bride as with the man himself. But Nellie and Margo are not so blind...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748125739
• Artikelnr.: 39209736

Autorenporträt

Beryl Bainbridge wrote seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, she won literary awards including the Whitbread Prize and Author of the Year at the British Book Awards. She died in July 2010.

Rezensionen

An impressive, haunting book...Like the better Hitchcock films, Beryl Bainbridge suggests a claustrophobic horror Sunday Times