On Green Dolphin Street - A Novel

Zusatztext “A romance full of luminous insights! brimming with feeling and paced to perfection. . . . No contemporary author writes with more power! more eloquent simplicity.” – San Francisco Chronicle “Smart! well-wrought . . . a tenderly orchestrated love story. . . . everything an old-fashioned novel is supposed to do. . . . It will provoke and linger.” – Chicago Tribune “Faulks is an exquisite observer. . . . The characters inhabit a setting so exotic and vivid! so correct in all its details! that it floods them with animating light.” – Newsday “When passion erupts! Faulks is equal to the task. His prose gets it just right. . . . He has given us three very real! immensely appealing people.” – The Washington Post Book World “[A] thoughtful love story [and] a melodic mood piece.” – The Oregonian “Faulks has given us immensely appealing people! and only the hardhearted can fail to respond to their experiences with sympathy.” – New York Post “[A] vivid novel of New York. . . . Seductive and radiant prose. . . . Faulks captures beautifully the cadence of the United States 40 years ago.” – Rocky Mountain News “Exquisite. . . . Tragic. . . . [Faulks] displays to good advantage his considerable powers in describing the story’s various landscapes.” – The Seattle Times “Faulks’ achievement is that he renders the period and places so convincingly that they become intimately familiar.” – Daily News (New York) “Fans of Faulks . . . will find plenty of period atmosphere on which to hang their snap-brimmed fedoras.” – People “This wonderful novel . . . makes being a grown-up seem enviable! stylish! seductive. . . . A joyous book with a glow of pleasure.” – Book Informationen zum Autor Sebastian Faulks is best known for his trilogy of novels set in France: The Girl at the Lion d’Or, Birdsong , and Charlotte Gray , the latter two of which were bestsellers. After a period in France, he and his family now live in London. Klappentext The bestselling author of Birdsong and Charlotte Gray delivers an enthralling, vibrantly evocative novel set in America in 1960, when the country stood poised between the paranoia of the Cold War and the ebullience of the New Frontier. Faulks' heroine is Mary Van der Linden, a pretty, reserved Englishwoman whose husband, Charlie, is posted to the British embassy in Washington. One night at a cocktail party Mary meets Frank Renzo, a reporter who has covered stories from the fall of Dienbienphu to the Emmett Till murder trial in Mississippi. Slowly, reluctantly, they fall in love. Their ensuing affair, in all its desperate elation, plays out against a backdrop that ranges from the jazz clubs of Greenwich Village to the smoke-filled rooms of the Kennedy campaign. A romance in the grand tradition that is also a neon-lit portrait of America at its apogee, On Green Dolphin Street is Sebastian Faulks at the peak of his powers. Chapter 1 The van der Lindens’ house was distinguished from the others on the street by the creeper that covered half the front, running up to the children’s rooms beneath the eaves, where at night the glow from the sidewalk lamp gave to Number 1064 the depth and shadow of a country settlement, somewhere far away from this tidy urban street. Among the row of new Cadillacs, their tail fins glinting like a rumor of sharks, Charlie van der Linden’s two-tone 1953 Kaiser Manhattan, maroon with a cream roof and a dented rear fender, struck a doubtful, out-of-town note. The house dominated its plot, the architect having sacrificed half the backyard to the status two extra rooms would bring a man. The lawn that remained was part paved, with a brick barbecue and a basketball hoop left by a previous tenant; at the end of the grass was a child’s metal swing which Charlie had assembled after ...

Product details

• Authors: Sebastian Faulks
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.01.2003
• EAN: 9780375704567
• ISBN: 978-0-375-70456-7
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 201 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Vintage International; Vintage International
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature