The Vintner's Luck

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Knox is the author of five books, including the international success Black Oxen , but The Vintner's Luck was the first to be published outside her native New Zealand. It met great critical and popular success, was longlisted for the Orange Prize and turned into a film in 2009. She is married and lives with her family in Wellington. Klappentext Village life goes on, meanwhile, with its affairs and mysteries, marriages and murders, and the vintages keep improving - though the horror of the Napoleonic wars and into the middle of the century, as science marches on, viticulture changes, and gliders fly like angels. Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Zusammenfassung Village life goes on, meanwhile, with its affairs and mysteries, marriages and murders, and the vintages keep improving - though the horror of the Napoleonic wars and into the middle of the century, as science marches on, viticulture changes, and gliders fly like angels. Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Knox, Knox Elizabeth
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.03.2000
• EAN: 9780099273899
• ISBN: 978-0-09-927389-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, viticulture; napoleonic wars; vineyard; burgundy