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Zusatztext Season Butler (in her novel Cygnet ) describ[es] an island occupied! with one exception! by geriatrics - the exception being the narrator! whose wise reflections on age! race! class and global warming belie her tender youth Informationen zum Autor Season Butler is a writer, artist and dramaturg born in Washington, DC. Through her work, she explores her interest in identity and otherness, the opportunities and traps of hindsight and hope, and what it means to look forward to an increasingly wily future. An early draft of Cygnet was shortlisted for the SI Leeds Prize for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian Women. She lives and works between London and Berlin. Klappentext 'Not since Holden Caulfield have I been so captivated by afirst-person voice as the one Season Butler creates in Cygnet' Blake Morrison The Kid doesn't know where her parents are. They left with a promise tocome back months ago, and now she is stranded on Swan Island. Swan isn't just any island; it is home to an eccentric old-age separatistcommunity who have shunned life on the mainland for a haven which is rapidlysinking into the ocean. The Kid's arrival threatens to burst the idyllic bubblethat the residents have so carefully constructed - an unwelcome reminder of thelife they left behind, and one they want rid of. 'Terribly moving. A clear-sighted, poignant rumination onloneliness, love, the melancholy of age and of youth' China Mieville 'A vivid, poetic debut' Daily Mail A remarkable, moving and original coming-of-age story about a girl resisting the savagery of adulthood while stranded on an eroding island inhabited by an isolated, unwelcoming elderly community. Zusammenfassung A remarkable, moving and original coming-of-age story about a girl resisting the savagery of adulthood while stranded on an eroding island inhabited by an isolated, unwelcoming elderly community....
