Elizabeth McCracken: The Hero of this Book
The Hero of this Book
Buch
- Random House UK Ltd, 11/2023
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781529919653
- Bestellnummer: 11678777
- Umfang: 192 Seiten
- Gewicht: 138 g
- Maße: 198 x 129 mm
- Stärke: 12 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 2.11.2023
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
'A sublime gift' MEG MASONA taut, ground-breaking new novel about a writer's relationship with her larger-than-life mother - and about the very nature of writing.
Ten months after her mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book walks across London on a quiet Sunday. The city was a favourite of her mother's, and as the narrator wanders the streets, she finds herself recalling all that made her complicated mother extraordinary. Even though the woman, a writer, wants to respect her mother's nearly pathological sense of privacy, she must decide whether making a chronicle of this remarkable life constitutes an act of love or betrayal.
* A New Yorker, Time, Washington Post, Oprah Daily and NPR Book of the Year *
'I absolutely loved it. A moving portrayal of daughterhood...suffused with warmth and love' MEGAN HUNTER, author of The Harpy
'Confirms McCracken as among the finest contemporary chroniclers of everyday life... wonderful' GUARDIAN
'Tender, funny, heartbreaking... a writer who always delights' RUMAAN ALAM, author of Leave the World Behind