Julian Gloag
Autore di Our Mother's House
Opere di Julian Gloag
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1930-07-02
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 15
- Utenti
- 143
- Popolarità
- #144,062
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 41
- Lingue
- 1
But outsiders are never far away: a teacher, a runaway child, a nosy "char"...and a one-time boyfriend of Mother (the children's recollections of her hymn-singing and virtue don't seem to be the whole picture.) And then Hubert, finding a letter from Mother's long lost husband, writes imploring him to return...
The childen are very individually drawn, but they remained pretty weird and unknowable. It's quite a compelling tale, but seemed to lack that human touch, and came to a sudden and rather unsatisfying end.
Ian McEwan's "The Cement Garden" has a very similar theme and he was, I read, accused of plagiarising Gloag's work.… (altro)