Sacred Country by Rose Tremain
I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy. Mary's fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate, emotional yet unsentimental novel. As daring as Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Sacred Country inspires us to reconsider the essence of gender, and proposes new insights in the unraveling of that timeless malady known as the human condition. As Mary's mother, Estelle, observes, There are no whole truths, just as there is no heart of the onion. There are only the dreams of the individual mind. Sweeping us through three decades, from the repressive English countryside of the fifties to the swinging London of the sixties to the rhinestone tackiness of seventies America, Rose Tremain unmasks the sacred country within us all.The prize-winning novels of Rose Tremain have been published in thirty countries. She lives in Norfolk, England, as Chancellor of the University of East Anglia, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and member of the Royal Society of Literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780671886097 |
| ISBN 10 | 0671886096 |
| Title | Sacred Country |
| Author | Rose Tremain |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 1995-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 340 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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