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The Orchard on Fire de Shena MacKay

The Orchard on Fire: Virago Modern Classics

Autor Shena MacKay
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 apr 2027
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE (1996)
'The Orchard on Fire is probably Mackay's most perfect book' PHILIP HENSHER, GUARDIAN
'A bitter-sweet, gentle novel, not given to grandstanding or preaching' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
'Shena Mackay has brought off something quite rare' ANITA BROOKNER, SPECTATOR
'What made the orchard miraculous was an abandoned railway carriage, set down as if by magic, its wheels gone, anchored by long grass and nettles. Ruby and I stared at it and each other . . . dark-windowed, out of place in a thicket of thorns, it was the perfect hide-out, house, the camp of our dreams'
When April's parents move from London to rural Kent, she makes her first best friend: flame-haired, fearless Ruby. Their friendship is a refuge of secret hide-outs, dares and laughter - but beneath this surface of this childhood idyll lurks a darker reality. While Ruby hides the bruises from her brutal home life, April can't escape the attention of the immaculate Mr Greenridge, with his charming dachshund and his eyes like blue glass.
Achingly nostalgic, funny and poignant, The Orchard on Fire is a bittersweet portrait of a 50s childhood, friendship and lost innocence.
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ISBN-13: 9780349023458
ISBN-10: 034902345X
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 22 mm
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Seria Virago Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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'What made the orchard miraculous was an abandoned railway carriage, set down as if by magic, its wheels gone, anchored by long grass and nettles. . . it was the perfect hide-out, house, the camp of our dreams'
When April's parents move from London to rural Kent, she makes her first best friend: flame-haired, fearless Ruby. Their friendship is a refuge of secret hide-outs, dares and laughter - but beneath this surface of this childhood idyll lurks a darker reality. While Ruby hides the bruises from her brutal home life, April can't escape the attention of the immaculate Mr Greenridge, with his charming dachshund and his eyes like blue glass.
Shortlisted for the 1996 Booker Prize, The Orchard on Fire is a bittersweet, funny, achingly poignant portrait of a 50s childhood, friendship and lost innocence.
'An extremely funny and beautiful novel . . . probably Mackay's most perfect book' PHILIP HENSHER
'A celebration of childhood as well as a mourning for the loss of innocence . . . shot through with humour and compassion' TLS

'Shena Mackay has brought off something quite rare' ANITA BROOKNER, SPECTATOR

So touched with magic, so achingly sad and funny that my breath was taken away . . . wonderful
An extremely beautiful and funny novel . . . The Orchard on Fire is probably Mackay's most perfect book, produced with a technical adroitness and shapeliness which one can only envy
A harvest festival of sensuous detail, intimate, rich . . . Compulsively readable
Shena Mackay is a writer in prime: at the height of her powers . . . Her prose is flawlessly seductive and comic, confidently witty and sensual
Wholly delightful . . . Shena Mackay is an assured artist
A celebration of childhood as well as a mourning for the loss of innocence . . . a bitter-sweet, gentle novel, not given to grandstanding or preaching, but shot through with humour and compassion. Her writing brilliantly captures the spirit of the place, where every present sensation has ghostly overtones that make the experience all the more sad and lovely
An eloquent, beautifully written, unpretentious novel about a Fifties childhood . . . Mackay moved this reader to tears, not from grief but from joy. Now there's a skill
Totally authentic, agonisingly nostalgic, this poignant everyday story of Fifties folk has the power to lay bare everyone's susceptibility to the ghosts that forever teem around the scenes of our childhood
Shena Mackay has brought off something quite rare . . . the author has set out a rite of passage which will leave few readers unaffected