Mother's Boy
Autor Patrick Galeen Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 noi 2022
'A mesmerising storyteller' The Times
'Warm and humane' Sunday Times
'Suffused with joy and wisdom' Guardian
'Sensitive and compelling' Irish Times
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ISBN-10: 1472257413
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 157 x 238 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.65 kg
Editura: Headline
Descriere
One of the joys of Gale's writing is how even the smallest of characters can appear fully formed, due to a charming wickedness alongside deeper observations' Irish TimesLaura, an impoverished Cornish girl, meets her husband when they are both in service in Teignmouth in 1916. They have a baby, Charles, but Laura's husband returns home from the trenches a damaged man, already ill with the tuberculosis that will soon leave her a widow. In a small, class-obsessed town she raises her boy alone, working as a laundress, and gradually becomes aware that he is some kind of genius.
As an intensely private young man, Charles signs up for the navy with the new rank of coder. His escape from the tight, gossipy confines of Launceston to the colour and violence of war sees him blossom as he experiences not only the possibility of death, but the constant danger of a love that is as clandestine as his work. MOTHER'S BOY is the story of a man who is among, yet apart from his fellows, in thrall to, yet at a distance from his own mother; a man being shaped for a long, remarkable and revered life spent hiding in plain sight.
But it is equally the story of the dauntless mother who will continue to shield him long after the dangers of war are past. 'A writer with heart, soul, and a dark and naughty wit, one whose company you relish and trust' Observer
Notă biografică
Patrick Gale was born on the Isle of Wight. He spent his infancy at Wandsworth Prison, which his father governed, then grew up in Winchester before going to Oxford University. He now lives on a farm near Land's End. One of this country's best-loved novelists, his most recent works are A Perfectly Good Man, the Richard and Judy bestseller Notes From An Exhibition, the Costa-shortlisted A Place Called Winter and Take Nothing With You. His original BBC television drama, Man In An Orange Shirt, was shown to great acclaim in 2017 as part of the BBC's Queer Britannia series, leading viewers around the world to discover his novels.