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Fame is the Spur

Spring, Howard
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781784976347
Publisert
2017-10-05
Utgiver
Vendor
Apollo Library
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
608

Forfatter
Spring, Howard
Introduksjon ved
Hunt Tristram

Om bidragsyterne

Howard Spring (1889-1965) won worldwide fame with his bestselling novel O Absalom! – afterwards reissued as My Son, My Son to avoid a clash with William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! He settled in Cornwall, the setting for books that followed, such as Fame Is the Spur (1940), Hard Facts (1944), and The Houses in Between (1951).

Fame is the Spur

Spring, Howard
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk
Spring, Howard
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk
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The leading character is a magnificent piece of portraiture and round him revolves a number of brilliantly observed characters. Not for a long time have I enjoyed a book so much

Daily Telegraph

A devastating memorial to the old-time Labour party

Daily Mail

The tragedy of the novel rests not just in the arc it traces from the heroic era of the proletariat in Peterloo to the midnight of the twentieth century, but in the missed encounters and lost possibilities embodied in every Hamer Shawcross

TLS

'When they buried the Old Warrior there was only one small wreath to go on the coffin... John Hamer Shawcross never forgot that moment. Hamer Shawcross is born into a poor but aspirational working-class family in Manchester. Studious and hard-working, he becomes a socialist activist, goes into politics and rises to become part of the privileged upper classes he began by opposing. Hamer's trajectory is mirrored by the rise of the Labour movement in Britain from the mid-19th century to the 1930s. This wonderfully perceptive study of a career politician serves as a telling elegy for the Labour Party.
Les mer
<p>A novel of ambition, about a man who rises from the most humble of beginnings in Manchester and reaches the very top in politics. </p>
A novel of ambition, about a man who rises from the most humble of beginnings in Manchester and reaches the very top in politics.

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The leading character is a magnificent piece of portraiture and round him revolves a number of brilliantly observed characters. Not for a long time have I enjoyed a book so much

Daily Telegraph

A devastating memorial to the old-time Labour party

Daily Mail

The tragedy of the novel rests not just in the arc it traces from the heroic era of the proletariat in Peterloo to the midnight of the twentieth century, but in the missed encounters and lost possibilities embodied in every Hamer Shawcross

TLS

'When they buried the Old Warrior there was only one small wreath to go on the coffin... John Hamer Shawcross never forgot that moment. Hamer Shawcross is born into a poor but aspirational working-class family in Manchester. Studious and hard-working, he becomes a socialist activist, goes into politics and rises to become part of the privileged upper classes he began by opposing. Hamer's trajectory is mirrored by the rise of the Labour movement in Britain from the mid-19th century to the 1930s. This wonderfully perceptive study of a career politician serves as a telling elegy for the Labour Party.
Les mer
<p>A novel of ambition, about a man who rises from the most humble of beginnings in Manchester and reaches the very top in politics. </p>
A novel of ambition, about a man who rises from the most humble of beginnings in Manchester and reaches the very top in politics.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781784976347
Publisert
2017-10-05
Utgiver
Vendor
Apollo Library
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
608

Forfatter
Spring, Howard
Introduksjon ved
Hunt Tristram

Om bidragsyterne

Howard Spring (1889-1965) won worldwide fame with his bestselling novel O Absalom! – afterwards reissued as My Son, My Son to avoid a clash with William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! He settled in Cornwall, the setting for books that followed, such as Fame Is the Spur (1940), Hard Facts (1944), and The Houses in Between (1951).

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