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Zusatztext One of the best novelists of her generation. Informationen zum Autor Beryl Bainbridge is the author of seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television. The Dressmaker , The Bottle Factory Outing , An Awfully Big Adventure , Every Man for Himself and Master Georgie (which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize) were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Every Man for Himself was awarded the Whitbread Novel of the Year Prize. She won the Guardian Fiction Prize with The Dressmaker and the Whitbread Prize with Injury Time. The Bottle Factory Outing , Sweet William and The Dressmaker have all been adapted for film, as was An Awfully Big Adventure , which starred Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman. Beryl Bainbridge died in July 2010. Klappentext 'One of the best novelists of her generation' Guardian Seventeen-year-old Alan can't stand rows. But, though the Second World War has ended, peace hangs by a fine thread at home: his troublesome sister Madge creeps off for night-time liaisons with a German POW; their ineffectual father - broken by the hardships of war and an unhappy marriage - can't put food on the table despite the family's middle-class manners. Meanwhile, his mother pursues her escapist fantasies in romantic novels and love affairs. Obedient, faithful Alan is trapped among them all, the focus of their jibes and resentment, as inexorably the family heads towards disaster. Beryl Bainbridge's classic early novel is a vintage story of English domestic life, laced with sadness, irony and wicked black humour. Beryl Bainbridge's classic early novel of English domestic life after the War, A Quiet Life is laced with irony and wicked black humour, and was praised by Hilary Mantel as 'one of the funniest books I have ever read'. Zusammenfassung Beryl Bainbridge's classic early novel of English domestic life after the War, A Quiet Life is laced with irony and wicked black humour, and was praised by Hilary Mantel as 'one of the funniest books I have ever read'....
