Falling Angels

Tracy Chevalier

За особеностите на екземпляра

Състояние:: Много добро
Забележка:: Без следи от употреба, леко захабен външен вид.
Език:: Английски
Наличност:: 1 бр. - в това състояние и цена в този щанд. Други екземпляри от книгата

За изданието

Издателство:: HarperCollins Publishers
Град на издаване:: London
Година:: 2001 г.
Език:: Английски
Страници:: 404
Корици:: Твърди
Категория:: Чужда проза
Тегло (гр.):: 395
Ширина (мм):: 135
Височина (мм):: 205
Дебелина (мм):: 28
ISBN:: 9780007108251

Falling Angels is the eagerly awaited new novel from Tracy Chevalier, bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring. A poignant tale of two families brought reluctantly together, it is an intimate story of childhood friendships, sexual awakening and human frailty Yet it takes in the changing of a nation, the fight for women's suffrage and the questioning of steadfast beliefs. January 1901, the day after Queen Victoria's death: two families visit neighbouring graves in a fashionable London cemetery. One is decorated with a sentimental angel, the other an elaborate urn. The Waterhouses revere the late Queen and cling to Victorian traditions; the Colemans look forward to a more modern society. To their mutual distaste, the families are inextricably linked when their daughters become friends behind the tombstones. And worse, befriend the gravedigger's muddy son. As the girls grow up and the new century finds its feet, as cars replace horses and electricity outshines gas lighting, the nation emerges from the shadows of oppressive Victorian values to a golden Edwardian summer. It is then that the beautiful, frustrated Mrs Coleman makes a bid for greater personal freedom, with disastrous consequences, and the lives of the Colemans and the Waterhouses are changed forever. A rich, page-turning, beautifully written novel by the author of the much praised bestseller Girl With a Pearl Earring - A wonderful novel, mysterious, deeply steeped in atmosphere ... a truly magical experience' The Guardian. * Tracy Chevalier grew up in Washington DC. She moved to Britain in 1984 and worked for several years as a reference book editor. In 1994 she graduated from the MA course in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. She lives in London with her husband and son. Her first novel, Virgin Blue, will be republished by HarperCollins.

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