Beschrijving
Titel en schrijver |
On Green Dolphin Street, Sebastian Faulks |
ISB nr. |
0-09-179374-2 |
Uitgeverij, drukjaar en drukversie |
Uitgeverij Sebastian Faulks, 2001, Eerste druk |
Paperback of hardcover |
Paperback |
Aantal pagina’s |
346 pagina’s |
Taal en categorie |
English, Novel |
Korte samenvatting |
Mary van der Linden is the mother of two children. She has loving parents and a husband. She has a life of parties, jazz and a happy family. The year 1960 brings the presidential battle between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Frank Renzo is reporter. He enters the life of van der Linden. Mary is forced through him to know about the terror of the Cold War. |
Over de auteur |
Sebastian Charles Faulks is born on 20 April 1953. He is a British novelist, journalist and broadcaster. He is known for his historical novels. There are: ’The Girl at the Lion d’Or’, ‘Birdsong’ and ‘Charlotte Gray’. Other novels are: ‘A Week in December’ (2009), ‘ Devil May Care’ (2008), ‘Jeeves and the Wedding Bells’ (2013). He is a team captain on BBC Radio 4 literary quiz ‘The Write Stuff’.
He was educated at Elstree School. After that he went to the Wellington College in Berkshire. At the Emmanuel College in Cambridge he read English. He was made an Honorary Fellow in 2008 at the Emmanuel College. He participated in University Challenge at Cambridge. During the opening round the Emmanuel College lost. Faulks worked as a teacher at a private school in Camden Town after his graduation. After that he was a journalist at the Daily and Sunday Telegraph. |
Recensies |
Sunday Times: ‘A novel about adultery, jazz and alcohol-full of good things, of the intensity of initially thwarted desire, of the atmosphere of a new era coming alive, of the poignancy of things past rings precisely true – suave and fluent’
Sunday Telegraph: ‘A real page turner…superbly done…another winner’ |
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