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The Dark Horse: A Virago Modern Classic de Rumer Godden

The Dark Horse: A Virago Modern Classic: Virago Modern Classics

Autor Rumer Godden
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 feb 2025
By the author of Black Narcissus and The River
'[Godden's] distinctive, poised and unsentimental books have never lost a shred of their almost hypnotic appeal' ROSIE THOMAS, GUARDIAN
'One of our best and most captivating novelists' PHILIP HENSHER
'[Godden has] a genius for storytelling' EVENING STANDARD
'All horses can walk - some badly, some well, but to a few is given a gift of movement feline in its grace, a slouching, flowing continuous movement that is a joy to watch. Dark Invader strode in glorious rhythm, his great shoulders rolling, muscles rippling along his flanks under the satin skin.'
In 1930s Calcutta, a beautiful racehorse brings together a group of outsiders: John Quillan, a talented trainer ostracized for his marriage; Mr Leventine, the shrewd new owner of Dark Invader; Ted Mullins, his groom, whose career has been derailed by scandal; and Mother Morag, head of an order of nuns working with the city's poor.
Sold in disgrace and shipped to India after a disappointing first season, the horse requires gentleness and careful handling - but soon becomes the firm favourite for the famous Viceroy Cup. Then, days before the race, Dark Invader disappears. When all seems lost, Mother Morag's sharp wits and gentle wisdom may just be their salvation. . .
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780349017594
ISBN-10: 034901759X
Pagini: 197
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Seria Virago Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

'All horses can walk - some badly, some well, but to a few is given a gift of movement feline in its grace, a slouching, flowing continuous movement that is a joy to watch'

In 1930s Calcutta, a beautiful racehorse brings together a group of outsiders: John Quillan, a talented trainer ostracized for his marriage; Mr Leventine, the shrewd new owner of Dark Invader; Ted Mullins, his groom, whose career has been derailed by scandal; and Mother Morag, Revered Mother of the Sisters of Poverty.
Sold in disgrace and shipped to India after a disappointing first season, the horse requires gentleness and careful handling - but soon becomes the firm favourite for the famous Viceroy Cup, winning the hearts of those who see him. Then, days before the race, Dark Invader disappears. When all seems lost, Mother Morag's sharp wits and gentle wisdom may just be their salvation. . .
'Godden has a genius for storytelling' Evening Standard
'Rumer Godden's novels pulse with life' Daily Telegraph
'One of the greatest horse books ever written' Lauren St John

[Godden's] distinctive, poised and unsentimental books have never lost a shred of their almost hypnotic appeal
[Godden has] a genius for storytelling
All [Godden's novels] have one important thing in common: They are beautifully and simply wrought by a woman of depth and sensitivity
One of the greatest horse books ever written . . . Moving, and highly original
A moving and unusual story

Notă biografică

Rumer Godden (1907-1998) was the author of more than sixty works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children's literature, and is considered by many to be one of the foremost English language writers of the twentieth century. Born in Sussex, England, she moved with her family to Narayanganj, colonial India, now Bangladesh, when she was six months old. Godden began her writing career with Chinese Puzzle in 1936 and achieved international fame three years later with her third book, Black Narcissus. A number of her novels were inspired by her nearly four decades of life in India, including The River, Kingfishers Catch Fire, Breakfast with the Nikolides, and her final work, Cromartie vs. the God Shiva, published in 1997. She returned to the United Kingdom for good at the end of World War II and continued her prolific literary career with the acclaimed novels The Greengage Summer, In This House of Brede, and numerous others. Godden won the Whitbread Award for children's literature in 1972, and in 1993 she was named an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Nine of her novels have been made into motion pictures. She died at the age of ninety in Dumfriesshire, UK.