Monique Roffey
Autore di The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
Sull'Autore
Monique Roffey is now center director at The Arvon Foundation's residential center for writers in Devon.
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1965-04-24
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Trinidad and Tobago (dual nationality)
UK (dual nationality) - Luogo di nascita
- Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad - Istruzione
- University of East Anglia (BA) (English and Film Studies)
Lancaster University (MA) (Creative Writing)
Lancaster University (PhD) (Creative Writing) - Attività lavorative
- novelist
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing - Organizzazioni
- Manchester Metropolitan University
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The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey in Orange January/July (Luglio 2011)
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- Opere
- 8
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 1,079
- Popolarità
- #23,834
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 53
- ISBN
- 67
- Lingue
- 4
- Preferito da
- 2
In truth, I've never visited Trinidad. But so lush and evocative are Monique Roffey's descriptions of the landscape, the townscapes, the climate, the boredom, the anger: all part of the complex period through which she passes during her time there, that it's almost as if I have.
Sabine's homesickness for a country she would perhaps no longer recognise, her strange need to communicate with politician Eric Williams as his career rises then falls are all richly described. This is a book which will stay in the memory.… (altro)