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Informationen zum Autor John Burnside was among the most acclaimed writers of his generation. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial, Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and, in 2023, he received the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime’s achievement in literature. In 2011 Black Cat Bone won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes for poetry. He died in 2024. Klappentext John Burnside is amongst the most acclaimed writers of his generation. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs have won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, the Encore Award and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year. In 2011 he became only the second person to win both the Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes for poetry for the same book, Black Cat Bone . In 2015 he was a judge for the Man Booker Prize. He is a Professor in the School of English at St Andrews University. Zusammenfassung Kate, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary. Gradually, Jean offers a heart-breaking account, not only of her own history – a lost lover, a family scarred by war – but of the American century itself;

Product details

• Authors: John Burnside
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.02.2018
• EAN: 9780099554936
• ISBN: 978-0-09-955493-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Friendship, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary