The Observations
Autor Jane Harrisen Limba Engleză Paperback – aug 2007
The Observations is a hugely assured and darkly funny debut set in nineteenth-century Scotland. Bessy Buckley, the novel?s heroine, is a cynical, wide-eyed, and tender fifteen-year-old Irish girl who takes a job as a maid in a once-grand country house outside Edinburgh, where all is not as it seems. Asked by her employer, the beautiful Arabella, to keep a journal of her most intimate thoughts, Bessy soon makes a troubling discovery and realizes that she has fled her difficult past only to arrive in an even more disturbing present.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780143112013
ISBN-10: 0143112015
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 140 x 211 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10: 0143112015
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 140 x 211 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group
Recenzii
A deliriously captivating tale of sex, ghosts, lies, and mysteries. (Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love)
By turns funny and sad, but always true to the ear. And the sprightly, profane Bessy is a joy. (Entertainment Weekly)
ItÆs a rare feeling to be swept up by a book in the childhood way, but when it happens, itÆs extraordinary: deeply familiar and strangely unsettling. (London Review of Books)
The Observations combines the best qualities of literary fiction with page-turning accessibility. (The Observer, London)
By turns funny and sad, but always true to the ear. And the sprightly, profane Bessy is a joy. (Entertainment Weekly)
ItÆs a rare feeling to be swept up by a book in the childhood way, but when it happens, itÆs extraordinary: deeply familiar and strangely unsettling. (London Review of Books)
The Observations combines the best qualities of literary fiction with page-turning accessibility. (The Observer, London)
Notă biografică
Jane Harris's short stories have appeared in a wide variety of anthologies and magazines, and she has written several award-winning short films. In 2000, she received a Writer's Award from the Arts Council of England.
Descriere
In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy takes a job as a maid. Her "missus" demands Bessy keep a journal of her thoughts in this powerful story of secrets and suspicions, hidden histories, and mysterious disappearances.