The Lost Child by Caryl Phillips
One of our most acclaimed novelists adopts two disparate narrative voices and juxtaposes their stories to devastating effect in this damning critique of 1960s Britain'Phillips is a master of his prose..a writer adept at building atmosphere'.
* Tribune Magazine *'Every exchange matters, every word - spoken or unspoken - counts. That Phillips evokes this with such disquieting beauty and strength is a profound achievement.'
* The Tablet *‘Phillips writes with acute insight…heart-breaking’
* Independent *‘Phillips has found a way to enlist the strange energy of Emily Bronte’s work and redirect it to powerful and surprising effect’
* Times Literary Supplement *‘vividly re-created… fascinating. The atmosphere and language are intricately done, shifting with the decades and locales in a kind of linguistic odyssey’
* Herald *‘Powerful… affecting’
* Spectator *'A literary gem… haunting’
* Woman's Way *‘Bold… complex’
* Sunday Times *‘The prose is as sleek as you would expect from a writer as accomplished as Phillips’
* Guardian *‘This novel weaves together a series of stories featuring a cast of outsiders and orphans preoccupied by the idea of home… Expertly written and artfully crafted’
* Daily Mail *‘Intricately layered…complex and compelling’
* Independent *‘The account of Emily’s father teaching her to shoot is very
* Mail on Sunday *Caryl Phillips is the author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, including Dancing in the Dark, Colour Me English, Crossing the River, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and A Distant Shore, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781780747989 |
| ISBN 10 | 1780747985 |
| Titel | The Lost Child |
| Autor | Caryl Phillips |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Oneworld Publications |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2015-09-03 |
| Seitenanzahl | 272 |
| 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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