God On The Rocks

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1978

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Gardam, Jane

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback

CHF19.50

Beschreibung

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, this is a reissue of the moving story of a girl's coming of age. From the author of "Old Filth". 'A meticulously observed modern classic' "Independent"

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-349-12149-9

ProduktartTaschenbuch

EinbandKartoniert, Paperback

FormatB-Format Paperback (UK)

Verlag

Little, Brown and Company

Abacus

Erscheinungsdatum07.08.2008

Seiten224 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 126 mm, Höhe 196 mm, Dicke 20 mm

Gewicht155 g

Artikel-Nr.3301451

KatalogBuchzentrum

Datenquelle-Nr.3685881

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Gardam, Jane

Jane Gardam is the only writer to have been twice awarded the Whitbread/Costa Prize for Best Novel of the Year, for The Queen of the Tambourine and The Hollow Land. She also holds a Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of literature. She is the author of five volumes of acclaimed stories: Black Faces, White Faces (David Higham Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize); The Pangs of Love (Katherine Mansfield Prize); Going into a Dark House (Silver Pen Award from PEN); Missing the Midnight; and The People on Privilege Hill. Her novels include God on the Rocks, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Faith Fox; The Flight of the Maidens; the bestselling Old Filth, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2005; The Man in the Wooden Hat; and Last Friends. Jane Gardam was born in Yorkshire. She now lives in east Kent.