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Fin and Lady de Cathleen Schine

Fin and Lady

Autor Cathleen Schine
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 noi 2013
Eleven-year-old Fin and his older half-sister, Lady, have just been orphaned. Fin has not seen his glamorous sister in six years, but she is now his legal guardian - and his only hope.

Uprooted from his home on a small dairy farm in rural Connecticut, Fin joins Lady in her Greenwich Village apartment. With the Swinging Sixties swirling in kaleidoscope colour all around him, Fin soon learns that his free-living, free-loving sister is going to be as much his responsibility, as he is hers.

Comic and romantic, joyous and moving, Fin & Lady is a spirited love story about a brother and sister who must form their own unconventional bond in increasingly troubled times.

Praise for The Three Weissmanns of Westport:

'Elegant prose, pin-sharp humour, and an ending that proves satisfyingly bittersweet.' Guardian

'Intelligent and beguiling.' The Times

'Sparkling, crisp, clever, deft, hilarious, and deeply affecting.' New York Times
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472111296
ISBN-10: 147211129X
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 133 x 195 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Corsair
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

The opening sentence of Cathleen Schine’s engaging and moving novel offers a mini-masterclass in how to swiftly command a reader’s attention … Fin & Lady is a little gem.
‘A bittersweet elegy for Greenwich Village in the 1960s’ … Like comic writers before her from Shakespeare to Jane Austen and Evelyn Waugh, [Schine] skillfully plays with the conventions and the reader’s expectations … wise and wistful’
‘Wonderfully funny … Schine conveys the rapidly shifting mores of the ’60s, as well as the slowly unfolding understanding of these appealingly vulnerable characters’
‘Fin & Lady is an enchanting novel about enchanting things – the romance of youth, the intoxicating possibilities of freedom – though this feeling of magic arises from tragic roots’
‘Schine is a wonderful storyteller with a sensational ability to marry the comic with the bittersweet’
‘The achingly lovely Fin & Lady is a time machine back to 1960s New York City — with side trips to the Italian island of Capri'
‘What if Holly Golightly had a trust fund instead of a ‘candy store’? The gamine at the heart of Fin & Lady … shares more than a few traits with Truman Capote's iconic heroine. Delightful … charming’
Fin has not seen his glamorous older sister in six years, but she is now his legal guardian – and his only hope…

It is 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his older half-sister, Lady, have just been orphaned. Uprooted from his home on a small dairy farm in rural Connecticut, Fin joins Lady in her Greenwich Village apartment. With the Swinging Sixties swirling in kaleidoscope colour all around him, Fin soon learns that his free-living, free-loving sister is going to be as much his responsibility, as he is hers.

Comic and romantic, joyous and moving, Fin & Lady is a spirited love story about a brother and sister who must form their own unconventional bond in increasingly troubled times.

‘Sparkling, crisp, clever, deft, hilarious, and deeply affecting.’ The New York Times on
The Three Weissmanns of Westport


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