I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

I write this sitting at the kitchen sink' is the first line of a novel about love, sibling rivalry and a bohemian existence in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. Cassandra Mortmin's journal records her fadingly glamorous stepmother, her beautiful, wistful older sister and the man to whom they owe both their isolation and poverty - Father. The author of one experimental novel, and a minor cause celebre, he has since suffered from writer's block and is determined to drag his family down with him. But if the iron has entered Father's soul it hasn't penetrated Cassandra's...

This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met JK. Rowling A delicious, compulsively readable novel about young love and its vicissitudes. What fun! Erica Jong Much more fun than the reader has any right to expect THE WEEKLY STANDARD Dreamy and funny...an odd, shimmering timelessness clings to its pages. A thousand and one cheers for its reissue. A + ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

Dodie Smith (1896-1990) was born and brought up in Manchester and trained at RADA. She was a dramatist and writer. She went to US in 1939 with her manager Alec Beesley whom she later married. I Capture the Castle sold over a million copies after it was first published in 1949.

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ISBN 13	9781860491023
ISBN 10	1860491022
Titel	I Capture the Castle
Autor	Dodie Smith
Serie	Vmc
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Little, Brown Book Group
Erscheinungsjahr	1996-01-18
Seitenanzahl	368
Preise	Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003, Short-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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