The Dressmaker
(Sprache: Englisch)
Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic best.
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Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic best.
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'The book I wish I'd written . . . Witty, chilling, every word in place' Hilary Mantel, Guardian
Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naïve and withdrawn. When she meets Ira, a GI, at a neighbour's party she falls in love as much with the idea of life as a GI bride as with the man himself. But Nellie and Margo are not so blind...
Autoren-Porträt von Beryl Bainbridge
Beryl Bainbridge is the author of seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television. The Dressmaker, The Bottle Factory Outing, An Awfully Big Adventure, Every Man for Himself and Master Georgie (which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize) were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Every Man for Himself was awarded the Whitbread Novel of the Year Prize. She won the Guardian Fiction Prize with The Dressmaker and the Whitbread Prize with Injury Time. The Bottle Factory Outing, Sweet William and The Dressmaker have all been adapted for film, as was An Awfully Big Adventure, which starred Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman. Beryl Bainbridge died in July 2010.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Beryl Bainbridge
- 2010, 192 Seiten, Masse: 12,7 x 19,6 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: ABACUS
- ISBN-10: 0349123705
- ISBN-13: 9780349123707
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.09.2010
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Englisch
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