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Lilian's Story

Grenville, Kate
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781841959955
Publisert
2007-07-05
Utgiver
Vendor
Canongate Books
Vekt
195 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288

Forfatter
Grenville, Kate

Biographical note

Kate Grenville's bestselling novel The Secret River received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. The Idea of Perfection won the Women's Prize. Grenville's other novels include Sarah Thornhill, The Lieutenant, Lilian's Story, Dark Places, Joan Makes History and A Room Made of Leaves. Her 2024 novel Restless Dolly Maunder was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction.

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Lilian's Story

Grenville, Kate
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk
Grenville, Kate
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk
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Lilian's Story . . . takes you into another world, which is rare.

* Guardian *

Here is someone who can really write

- Peter Carey,

Kate Grenville has transformed an Australian myth into a dazzling fiction of universal appeal. It is a pleasure to be able to praise a true novelist.

- Patrick White,

*NEW NOVEL RESTLESS DOLLY MAUNDER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024*FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AND WOMEN'S PRIZE-WINNING AUSTRALIAN NOVELIST As a child in twentieth-century Australia, Lilian Una Singer struggles to escape a suffocating existence in the home of her tyrannical Victorian father and her elegant but ineffectual mother. Madness, cruelty and sexuality permeate the family's upper crust world and influence Lilian's upbringing. As a grown woman, Lilian has to make difficult choices if she wants to reject the idea that her story is already fixed, written by others. Will she succeed in making her life her own, despite her parents and her environment, by triumphantly savouring every moment?
Les mer
The defiant and darkly comic debut from Booker Prize-shortlisted and Women's Prize-winning Australian novelist Kate Grenville
'This novel is bound for glory: it is original, moving, and brilliantly convincing.'VogueLilian Una Singer starts life as the daughter of a prosperous middle-class family. She ends it as a cheerfully eccentric bag-lady living on the streets, quoting Shakespeare for a living. How did she come to take this journey, and why did she make the choices she did?The world presents Lilian with many obstacles, not least the fact that she is a woman. But in spite of everything, she triumphantly makes her life her own, savouring every moment with the reminder that 'everything matters'.Lilian's Story is a wonderful, life-affirming novel from one of our most gifted writers.'Lilian's Story takes you into another world, which is rare.'Guardian'Grenville's prose is breathtaking and her novel is a miracle of characterisation . . . This is a rare and beautiful book.'Boston Globe
Les mer
Lilian's Story . . . takes you into another world, which is rare.

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Lilian's Story . . . takes you into another world, which is rare.

* Guardian *

Here is someone who can really write

- Peter Carey,

Kate Grenville has transformed an Australian myth into a dazzling fiction of universal appeal. It is a pleasure to be able to praise a true novelist.

- Patrick White,

*NEW NOVEL RESTLESS DOLLY MAUNDER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024*FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AND WOMEN'S PRIZE-WINNING AUSTRALIAN NOVELIST As a child in twentieth-century Australia, Lilian Una Singer struggles to escape a suffocating existence in the home of her tyrannical Victorian father and her elegant but ineffectual mother. Madness, cruelty and sexuality permeate the family's upper crust world and influence Lilian's upbringing. As a grown woman, Lilian has to make difficult choices if she wants to reject the idea that her story is already fixed, written by others. Will she succeed in making her life her own, despite her parents and her environment, by triumphantly savouring every moment?
Les mer
The defiant and darkly comic debut from Booker Prize-shortlisted and Women's Prize-winning Australian novelist Kate Grenville
'This novel is bound for glory: it is original, moving, and brilliantly convincing.'VogueLilian Una Singer starts life as the daughter of a prosperous middle-class family. She ends it as a cheerfully eccentric bag-lady living on the streets, quoting Shakespeare for a living. How did she come to take this journey, and why did she make the choices she did?The world presents Lilian with many obstacles, not least the fact that she is a woman. But in spite of everything, she triumphantly makes her life her own, savouring every moment with the reminder that 'everything matters'.Lilian's Story is a wonderful, life-affirming novel from one of our most gifted writers.'Lilian's Story takes you into another world, which is rare.'Guardian'Grenville's prose is breathtaking and her novel is a miracle of characterisation . . . This is a rare and beautiful book.'Boston Globe
Les mer
Lilian's Story . . . takes you into another world, which is rare.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781841959955
Publisert
2007-07-05
Utgiver
Vendor
Canongate Books
Vekt
195 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288

Forfatter
Grenville, Kate

Biographical note

Kate Grenville's bestselling novel The Secret River received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. The Idea of Perfection won the Women's Prize. Grenville's other novels include Sarah Thornhill, The Lieutenant, Lilian's Story, Dark Places, Joan Makes History and A Room Made of Leaves. Her 2024 novel Restless Dolly Maunder was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction.

kategrenville.com

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