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Beschreibung

'A master of language.' Hilary Mantel

Kate, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary.

Jean declines but makes her a bizarre counteroffer: if Kate can stay sober for four days, she will tell her a story. If she can stay sober beyond that, there will be another, and then another, amounting to the entire history of one family's life.

Gradually, Jean offers a heart-breaking account, not only of her own history - a lost lover, a family scarred by war - but of the American century itself; as a deep connection emerges between the women which will transform both of their lives in this remarkable novel about love grief, and the power of unlikely friendships.

'Burnside wrestles with hugeness in a way that few writers dare to ... convincingly gracious and profoundly necessary.' Ali Smith

/ Nominiert: Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year, 2017

'A master of language.' Hilary Mantel

Kate, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary.

Jean declines but makes her a bizarre counteroffer: if Kate can stay sober for four days, she will tell her a story. If she can stay sober beyond that, there will be another, and then another, amounting to the entire history of one family's life.

Gradually, Jean offers a heart-breaking account, not only of her own history - a lost lover, a family scarred by war - but of the American century itself; as a deep connection emerges between the women which will transform both of their lives in this remarkable novel about love grief, and the power of unlikely friendships.

'Burnside wrestles with hugeness in a way that few writers dare to ... convincingly gracious and profoundly necessary.' Ali Smith

/ Nominiert: Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year, 2017
Zusammenfassung
John Burnside was among the most acclaimed writers of his generation. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial, Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and, in 2024, he received the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in literature. In 2011 Black Cat Bone won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes for poetry.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 342 S.
ISBN-13: 9780099554936
ISBN-10: 0099554933
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 175532
Ausstattung / Beilage: B-format paperback
Einband: Paperback
Autor: Burnside, John
Hersteller: Vintage
Random House UK
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 198 x 129 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: John Burnside
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2018
Gewicht: 0,248 kg
Artikel-ID: 109869101

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