Bilgewater
A quirky coming-of-age story . . . Female adolescence as imagined by one of the 20th century's best-and most peculiar-writers (Kirkus Reviews).Originally published in 1977, Jane Gardams Bilgewater is an affectionate and complex rendering-in-miniature of the discomforts of growing up and first love seen through the eyes of inimitable Marigold Green, an awkward, eccentric, highly intelligent girl. The Evening Standard described Bilgewater as one of the funniest, most entertaining, most unusual stories about young love.Motherless and sixteen, Marigold is the headmaster's daughter at a private backwater all-boys school. To make matters worse, Mar…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-60945-331-2
- EAN: 9781609453312
- Produktnummer: 19042462
- Verlag: Europa Ed
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.1 cm x D2.2 cm 303 g
- Gewicht: 303
- Sonstiges: Ab 13 - 17 J.
Über den Autor
Jane Gardam is the only writer to have been twice awarded the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel of the Year. She is winner of the David Higham Prize and the Royal Society for Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize, the Katherine Mansfield Prize, and the Silver Pen Award from PEN. Her novels include Old Filth (Europa, 2006), The Queen of the Tambourine, (Europa, 2007), and A Long Way from Verona (Europa, 2013). A volume of her selected short stories, The Stories of Jane Gardam, was published in 2014 by Europa Editions. She lives in the south of England near the sea.
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