Andrea Barrett

The Forms of Water (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Tenderly and movingly written. In the Auberon family, Andrea Barrett has created flesh and blood, fallible, loveable, and most of all, memorable protagonists. An intelligent, thought-provoking and sensitive story."
'Time Out'

Henry Auberon visits his uncle Brendan in his nursing home merely hoping to improve his chances of an inheritance. His sister Wiloma, is determined to bring Brendan home with her so that she can claim responsibility for his soul. Brendan, dying of cancer, is plotting a very different escape. He wants to make a last visit to the one part of the family estate remaining; and he convinces Henry to hijack the nursing home van to make this ancestral visit. But what begins as something of a joke, soon forces this flawed family to confront the truth about their past and come to terms with themselves and each other.

"Barrett's exploration of the fragile bonds between us and our need for redemption is quietly but powerfully moving. This is a fine and distinctive novel"
'Sunday Times'

"Barrett poses subtle, important questions about what families can and cannot offer today. Her enquiry into the subjects of middle-class identity and ageing stand out for their rarity in contemporary fiction. Be ready, warns Barrett, to accommodate fellow passengers - especially those oddballs you grew up with."
'TLS'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007396870
• Artikelnr.: 38000913

Autorenporträt

Andrea Barrett lives in Rochester, NY. She is the author of five novels, and two collections of stories, 'Ship Fever', which won the National Book Award in 1996, and 'Servants of the Map'.