God on the Rocks

Informationen zum Autor Jane Gardam is the only writer to have been twice awarded the Whitbread/Costa Prize for Best Novel of the Year, for The Queen of the Tambourine and The Hollow Land . She also holds a Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of literature. She is the author of five volumes of acclaimed stories: Black Faces, White Faces (David Higham Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize); The Pangs of Love (Katherine Mansfield Prize); Going into a Dark House (Silver Pen Award from PEN); Missing the Midnight ; and The People on Privilege Hill . Her novels include God on the Rocks , which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Faith Fox ; The Flight of the Maidens ; the bestselling Old Filth , which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2005; The Man in the Wooden Hat ; and Last Friends . Jane Gardam was born in Yorkshire. She now lives in east Kent. Klappentext Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, this is a reissue of the moving story of a girl's coming of age. From the author of "Old Filth". 'A meticulously observed modern classic' "Independent" Vorwort A moving, Booker-shortlisted story of a girl's coming of age Zusammenfassung A moving, Booker-shortlisted story of a girl's coming of age

Product details

• Authors: Jane Gardam
• Publisher: Abacus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.08.2008
• EAN: 9780349121499
• ISBN: 978-0-349-12149-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Religious, FICTION / Family Life / Siblings, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Religious and spiritual fiction, Religious & Spiritual Fiction