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North Face A Virago Modern Classic

Renault, Mary
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk

Product details

ISBN
9781844089550
Published
2014
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group; Virago Press Ltd
Weight
254 gr
Height
196 mm
Width
127 mm
Thickness
21 mm
Age
00, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
320

Author
Renault, Mary
Introduction by
Dunant, Sarah

Biographical note

Mary Renault (1905-1983) was born in London and educated at St Hughs, Oxford. She trained as a nurse at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary, where she met her lifelong partner, Julie Mullard. Her first novel, Purposes of Love, was published in 1937. In 1948, after North Face won a MGM prize worth $150,000, she and Mullard emigrated to South Africa. There, Renault was able to write forthrightly about homosexual relationships for the first time - in her masterpiece, The Charioteer (1953), and then in her first historical novel, The Last of the Wine (1956). Renault's vivid novels set in the ancient world brought her worldwide fame. In 2010 Fire From Heaven was shortlisted for the Lost Booker of 1970.

North Face A Virago Modern Classic

Renault, Mary
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk
Renault, Mary
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk
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a rich, serious, nourishing novel...It demands to be read slowly, with attention. Every character is real, solid, and multi-layered.

Independent on Sunday

On holiday in the North Devon countryside, Neil Langton looks back on the wreckage of his past. He has come to believe that all happiness is behind him; the wounds from his former marriage - in which his wife cheated on him and his young daughter died - are still raw. While rock-climbing, he meets Ellen, a young woman whom he saves from a mountainside accident. Ellen, too, is looking to escape her painful past, struggling to deal with her feelings for the man she loved - a pilot who died in service. Set in postwar Britain, and filled with a memorable cast of characters, North Face is a love story rich in atmosphere and tension.
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A postwar love story from the author of The Charioteer.
A postwar love story from the author of The Charioteer.

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a rich, serious, nourishing novel...It demands to be read slowly, with attention. Every character is real, solid, and multi-layered.

Independent on Sunday

On holiday in the North Devon countryside, Neil Langton looks back on the wreckage of his past. He has come to believe that all happiness is behind him; the wounds from his former marriage - in which his wife cheated on him and his young daughter died - are still raw. While rock-climbing, he meets Ellen, a young woman whom he saves from a mountainside accident. Ellen, too, is looking to escape her painful past, struggling to deal with her feelings for the man she loved - a pilot who died in service. Set in postwar Britain, and filled with a memorable cast of characters, North Face is a love story rich in atmosphere and tension.
Read more
A postwar love story from the author of The Charioteer.
A postwar love story from the author of The Charioteer.

Product details

ISBN
9781844089550
Published
2014
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group; Virago Press Ltd
Weight
254 gr
Height
196 mm
Width
127 mm
Thickness
21 mm
Age
00, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
320

Author
Renault, Mary
Introduction by
Dunant, Sarah

Biographical note

Mary Renault (1905-1983) was born in London and educated at St Hughs, Oxford. She trained as a nurse at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary, where she met her lifelong partner, Julie Mullard. Her first novel, Purposes of Love, was published in 1937. In 1948, after North Face won a MGM prize worth $150,000, she and Mullard emigrated to South Africa. There, Renault was able to write forthrightly about homosexual relationships for the first time - in her masterpiece, The Charioteer (1953), and then in her first historical novel, The Last of the Wine (1956). Renault's vivid novels set in the ancient world brought her worldwide fame. In 2010 Fire From Heaven was shortlisted for the Lost Booker of 1970.

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