The Peppered Moth (ePub)
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The prize-winning author of The Dark Flood Rises offers an "absorbing" portrait of three generations of women-inspired by her own family (The New York Times Book Review).
In the early 1900s, young Bessie Bawtry grows up in a mining town in South...
In the early 1900s, young Bessie Bawtry grows up in a mining town in South...
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The prize-winning author of The Dark Flood Rises offers an "absorbing" portrait of three generations of women-inspired by her own family (The New York Times Book Review).
In the early 1900s, young Bessie Bawtry grows up in a mining town in South Yorkshire, England. Unusually gifted, she longs to escape a life burdened by unquestioned tradition. She studies patiently, dreaming of the day when she will take the entrance exam for Cambridge and leave her narrow world. A generation later, Bessie's daughter Chrissie feels a similar impulse to expand her horizons, which she in turn passes on to her own daughter.
Nearly a century after that, Bessie's granddaughter finds herself listening to a lecture on genetics and biological determinism. She has returned to Breaseborough and wonders at the families who remained in the humble little town where Bessie grew up. Confronted with what would have been her life had her grandmother stayed, she finds herself faced with difficult questions. Is she really so different from the plain South Yorkshire locals? As she soon learns, the past has a way of reasserting itself-not unlike the peppered moth that was once thought to be nearing extinction but is now enjoying a sudden and unexplained resurgence.
With The Peppered Moth, the acclaimed author of The Seven Sisters conjures a captivating work of semi-fiction, grappling with her memory of her own mother and the indelible mark of family and heredity.
In the early 1900s, young Bessie Bawtry grows up in a mining town in South Yorkshire, England. Unusually gifted, she longs to escape a life burdened by unquestioned tradition. She studies patiently, dreaming of the day when she will take the entrance exam for Cambridge and leave her narrow world. A generation later, Bessie's daughter Chrissie feels a similar impulse to expand her horizons, which she in turn passes on to her own daughter.
Nearly a century after that, Bessie's granddaughter finds herself listening to a lecture on genetics and biological determinism. She has returned to Breaseborough and wonders at the families who remained in the humble little town where Bessie grew up. Confronted with what would have been her life had her grandmother stayed, she finds herself faced with difficult questions. Is she really so different from the plain South Yorkshire locals? As she soon learns, the past has a way of reasserting itself-not unlike the peppered moth that was once thought to be nearing extinction but is now enjoying a sudden and unexplained resurgence.
With The Peppered Moth, the acclaimed author of The Seven Sisters conjures a captivating work of semi-fiction, grappling with her memory of her own mother and the indelible mark of family and heredity.
Autoren-Porträt von Margaret Drabble
MARGARET DRABBLE is the author of The Sea Lady, The Seven Sisters, The Peppered Moth, and The Needle's Eye, among other novels. For her contributions to contemporary English literature, she was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2008.
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- Autor: Margaret Drabble
- 2017, 384 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Mariner Books
- ISBN-10: 0544002962
- ISBN-13: 9780544002968
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2017
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Pressezitat
Praise for The Witch of Exmoor“A novelist . . . who will have done for late twentieth-century London what Dickens did for Victorian London.” —The New York Times
“Drabble skewers the egotism of her characters and of the society they inhabit with subtle humor and elegant psychological analysis . . . proves herself a master of the art.” —Los Angeles Times
“Part mystery, part fairy tale . . . with a wicked, dead-on wit.” —People
Praise for The Radiant Way
“The sprawling, dazzling pluralism of her novel is meant to illustrate the glimmering interconnectedness of all humanity.” —The New Yorker
“This novel marks another step in one of the most interesting careers in contemporary letters. . . . It not only engrosses; it works.” —Time
Praise for A Natural Curiosity
“A masterly tapestry of characters and events . . . Drabble’s fiction has achieved a panoramic vision of contemporary life.” —Chicago Tribune
“It is Drabble’s story that beguiles us. Her main characters, successful people in relatively full possession of their lives, can still be surprised, and frequently are.” —The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
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