Pagan and Her Parents by Michael Arditti
A powerful novel about a gay man's struggle to adopt the daughter of his late best friend
Should be required reading wherever the nuclear family is smallmindedly lauded as the one true idealUnputdownable * The Times *
A subtle and complex reflection on the wider nature of love and attachment * Sunday Telegraph *
A moving novel about the survival of a modern family in the grip of death and the dead hand of convention * New Yorker *
Arditti writes exactly like Dickens. He demands participation from the reader in an era of detachment * Scotland on Sunday *
The questions Arditti tackles are burning and central. I honestly couldn't put the book down * Literary Review *
A subtle and complex reflection on the wider nature of love and attachment * Sunday Telegraph *
A moving novel about the survival of a modern family in the grip of death and the dead hand of convention * New Yorker *
Arditti writes exactly like Dickens. He demands participation from the reader in an era of detachment * Scotland on Sunday *
The questions Arditti tackles are burning and central. I honestly couldn't put the book down * Literary Review *
Michael Arditti is a novelist, short story writer and critic. His novels are The Celibate (1993), Pagan and her Parents (Pagan's Father in the USA) (1996), Easter (2000), Unity (2005), A Sea Change (2006), The Enemy of the Good (2009), Jubilate (2011), The Breath of Night (2013), Widows and Orphans (2016), Of Men and Angels (2018) and The Anointed (2020). His short story collection, Good Clean Fun, was published in 2004. He was awarded a Harold Hyam Wingate scholarship in 2000, a Royal Literary Fund fellowship in 2001, an Oppenheim-John Downes memorial award in 2003 and Arts Council awards in 2004 and 2007. He was the Leverhulme artist in residence at the Freud museum in 2008. His novels have been short- and long-listed for several literary awards and Easter won the inaugural Waterstone's Mardi Gras award. In 2012 he was awarded an Honorary DLitt by the University of Chester.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781906413743 |
| ISBN 10 | 1906413746 |
| Title | Pagan and Her Parents |
| Author | Michael Arditti |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Quercus Publishing |
| Year published | 2011-02-03 |
| Number of pages | 440 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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