Elizabeth Smither

Lola (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

On the day Lola Dearborn vowed to never attend another funeral, she was deliberately present at three . . . Lola Dearborn marries into Dearborn & Zander, a family of funeral directors, when she falls for Sam Dearborn at a dance. But when Sam, and her friend Alice Zander, injured in a freak accident, die, Lola devotes the rest of her life to exploration. She takes up residence in an art-deco hotel, she befriends the members of the Sylvester Quartet after gate-crashing a rehearsal. She reflects on the different kinds of love offered by men: Luigi the Italian undertaker who buries a dog with its owner, and Charles the retired surgeon with his disruptive daughter, Brandy. Lola's themes underpin an exploration of love and death (including pet cemeteries), music and friendship. Set between Australia and New Zealand, it is a story both acute and amusing, knowledgeable and questing - much like Lola herself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House NZ
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781742287751
• Artikelnr.: 38453727

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Smither is a prize-winning poet. Her collection The Lark Quartet won the Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry in 2000, and in 2002 she was the Te Mata New Zealand Poet Laureate. More recently, in 2008, she was awarded the prestigious Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry. Smither has written four previous novels - First Blood (1983), Brother-love, Sister-love (1986), The Sea Between Us (2003) and Different Kinds of Pleasure (2006) - and five collections of short stories, the most recent being The Girl Who Proposed (2008).