False Pretences

Informationen zum Autor Lee Langley is the author of nine highly praised novels including Changes of Address (shortlisted for the Hawthornden Prize) and Persistent Rumours (winner of a Commonwealth Writers' prize). Her most recent book was A Conversation on the Quai Voltaire, a volume of short stories, poetry and journalism. Her adaptation 'The Tenth Man', based on a Graham Greene story, was made into an award-winning movie starring Anthony Hopkins and Derek Jacobi. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in London. Klappentext Teasing out the extraordinary within the everyday FALSE PRETENCES is a contemporary novel in mosiac. Through the separate yet interlinked stories it traces the lives of two women as they deal with the complexities of love private terrors violence and - most precarious of all - hope. There is mystery wry humour sometimes tragedy beneath the jaunty surfaces glimpsed through the years until by the end we have encompassed their lives. Zusammenfassung Teasing out the extraordinary within the everyday, FALSE PRETENCES is a contemporary novel in mosiac. Through the separate yet interlinked stories, it traces the lives of two women as they deal with the complexities of love, private terrors, violence and - most precarious of all - hope.

Product details

• Authors: Lee Langley
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.10.1999
• EAN: 9780099273158
• ISBN: 978-0-09-927315-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, France, FICTION / Literary, Tokyo, India, Italy, Narrative theme: Interior life, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)