Poppy Shakespeare

Zusatztext 'Funny! lyrical and deeply affecting ... Seize this passionate! unsettling! accomplished debut with both hands' Informationen zum Autor Clare Allan was the winner of the first Orange/Harpers short-story prize. She lives in London. This is her first novel. Klappentext N has been a patient for thirteen years. Like the other patients! her ambition is never to be discharged. Poppy is certain she isn't mentally ill and desperate to return to her life outside and! though baffled! N agrees to help her. But in a world where everything's upside down! are they crazy to upset the system? The most arresting account of madness since One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Zusammenfassung N has been a patient for thirteen years. Like the other patients, her ambition is never to be discharged. Poppy is certain she isn't mentally ill and desperate to return to her life outside and, though baffled, N agrees to help her. But in a world where everything's upside down, are they crazy to upset the system?

Product details

• Authors: Clare Allan, Allan Clare, Clare Allen
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.03.2007
• EAN: 9780747585848
• ISBN: 978-0-7475-8584-8
• No. of pages: 341
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Bilingual editions > German/English; Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary