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LAST THINGS
From the author of Weather, shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020
Por Jenny Offill
Sinopsis
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Unexpectedly funny - New York Times
Full of imagination, humour and invention ... A glorious debut - Irish Times
Mesmerising ... She writes with a heartbreaking clarity ... and is dexterously able to evoke emotional extremity through pitch-perfect narrative compression - The Times
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THE EXQUISITE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF WEATHER, SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020
To eight-year-old Grace Davitt, her mother, Anna, is a puzzling yet wonderful mystery. This is a woman who has seen a sea serpent in the lake, who paints a timeline of the universe on the sewing-room wall, and who teaches her daughter a secret language which only they can speak.
For Graces father, however, the only truth is science, and increasingly he finds himself shut out by Anna as she draws Grace deeper and deeper into a strange world of myth and obsession.
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Selected as a Book of the Year in Guardian, Telegraph, Observer, Irish Times and New York Times
The charisma and damage of madness lend a desperate glamour- Elle
A gem of a book - Tatler
Brilliantly captures the confusion of childhood- Red
Unexpectedly funny - New York Times
Full of imagination, humour and invention ... A glorious debut - Irish Times
Mesmerising ... She writes with a heartbreaking clarity ... and is dexterously able to evoke emotional extremity through pitch-perfect narrative compression - The Times
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THE EXQUISITE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF WEATHER, SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020
To eight-year-old Grace Davitt, her mother, Anna, is a puzzling yet wonderful mystery. This is a woman who has seen a sea serpent in the lake, who paints a timeline of the universe on the sewing-room wall, and who teaches her daughter a secret language which only they can speak.
For Graces father, however, the only truth is science, and increasingly he finds himself shut out by Anna as she draws Grace deeper and deeper into a strange world of myth and obsession.
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Selected as a Book of the Year in Guardian, Telegraph, Observer, Irish Times and New York Times
The charisma and damage of madness lend a desperate glamour- Elle
A gem of a book - Tatler
Brilliantly captures the confusion of childhood- Red
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Ficha Técnica
Editorial: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
ISBN: 9781408879702
Número de páginas: 212
Fecha de lanzamiento: 16/06/2016
Año de edición: 1999
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