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North Face A Virago Modern Classic

Renault, Mary
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781844089550
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Vendor
Virago Press Ltd
Vekt
254 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
127 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320

Forfatter
Renault, Mary
Introduction by
Dunant, Sarah

Biographical note

Mary Renault (1905-1983) was born in London and educated at St Hughs, Oxford. She trained as a nurse at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary, where she met her lifelong partner, Julie Mullard. Her first novel, Purposes of Love, was published in 1937. In 1948, after North Face won a MGM prize worth $150,000, she and Mullard emigrated to South Africa. There, Renault was able to write forthrightly about homosexual relationships for the first time - in her masterpiece, The Charioteer (1953), and then in her first historical novel, The Last of the Wine (1956). Renault's vivid novels set in the ancient world brought her worldwide fame. In 2010 Fire From Heaven was shortlisted for the Lost Booker of 1970.

North Face A Virago Modern Classic

Renault, Mary
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk
Renault, Mary
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk
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a rich, serious, nourishing novel...It demands to be read slowly, with attention. Every character is real, solid, and multi-layered.

Independent on Sunday

On holiday in the North Devon countryside, Neil Langton looks back on the wreckage of his past. He has come to believe that all happiness is behind him; the wounds from his former marriage - in which his wife cheated on him and his young daughter died - are still raw. While rock-climbing, he meets Ellen, a young woman whom he saves from a mountainside accident. Ellen, too, is looking to escape her painful past, struggling to deal with her feelings for the man she loved - a pilot who died in service. Set in postwar Britain, and filled with a memorable cast of characters, North Face is a love story rich in atmosphere and tension.
Les mer
A postwar love story from the author of The Charioteer.
a rich, serious, nourishing novel...It demands to be read slowly, with attention. Every character is real, solid, and multi-layered.
A postwar love story from the author of The Charioteer.

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a rich, serious, nourishing novel...It demands to be read slowly, with attention. Every character is real, solid, and multi-layered.

Independent on Sunday

On holiday in the North Devon countryside, Neil Langton looks back on the wreckage of his past. He has come to believe that all happiness is behind him; the wounds from his former marriage - in which his wife cheated on him and his young daughter died - are still raw. While rock-climbing, he meets Ellen, a young woman whom he saves from a mountainside accident. Ellen, too, is looking to escape her painful past, struggling to deal with her feelings for the man she loved - a pilot who died in service. Set in postwar Britain, and filled with a memorable cast of characters, North Face is a love story rich in atmosphere and tension.
Les mer
A postwar love story from the author of The Charioteer.
a rich, serious, nourishing novel...It demands to be read slowly, with attention. Every character is real, solid, and multi-layered.
A postwar love story from the author of The Charioteer.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781844089550
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Vendor
Virago Press Ltd
Vekt
254 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
127 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320

Forfatter
Renault, Mary
Introduction by
Dunant, Sarah

Biographical note

Mary Renault (1905-1983) was born in London and educated at St Hughs, Oxford. She trained as a nurse at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary, where she met her lifelong partner, Julie Mullard. Her first novel, Purposes of Love, was published in 1937. In 1948, after North Face won a MGM prize worth $150,000, she and Mullard emigrated to South Africa. There, Renault was able to write forthrightly about homosexual relationships for the first time - in her masterpiece, The Charioteer (1953), and then in her first historical novel, The Last of the Wine (1956). Renault's vivid novels set in the ancient world brought her worldwide fame. In 2010 Fire From Heaven was shortlisted for the Lost Booker of 1970.

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