Jane Rogers
Autore di The Testament of Jessie Lamb
Sull'Autore
Jane Rogers has written five novels & the script for the BBC adaptation of "Mr. Wroe's Virgins," directed by Danny Boyle & starring Minnie Driver & Jonathan Pryce. Her "Living Image" won the Somerset Maugham Award, & "Promised Lands" won the Writers Guild Award for best novel. She lives in mostra altro Lancashire, England. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Jerry Bauer
Opere di Jane Rogers
The darkened road 1 copia
Morphogenesis (Short story) 1 copia
Opere correlate
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Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1952
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- England
UK - Luogo di nascita
- London, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
Grand Island, New York, USA
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK - Istruzione
- University of Cambridge (English)
- Attività lavorative
- professor (Sheffield Hallam University, writing)
- Organizzazioni
- Royal Society of Literature
- Agente
- Pat Kavanagh (PFD)
Utenti
Discussioni
The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers in Booker Prize (Settembre 2011)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 20
- Opere correlate
- 6
- Utenti
- 995
- Popolarità
- #25,894
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 49
- ISBN
- 87
- Lingue
- 6
The other part of the story is made up of the interwoven first person narratives of a woman called Olla who originates from somewhere in eastern Europe in the (present day at the time of publication) 1980s and the man she has married, Stephen. They have a total disassociation of viewpoints. Olla has known a lot of hardship, including an abusive home with a drunken father and a brother with breathing problems who she had to try to protect. Stephen is from a privileged middle class background but has become what was known at the time as a 'lefty' with Marxist views etc, which eventually lead him to disaster when he and another man try to run a school along egalitarian lines. The marriage undergoes total breakdown when they have a son who to everyone else is disabled but who Olla believes is a latent genius and messiah.
The historical part of the book was interesting but the 'present day' narrative didn't appeal and seemed a bit too self-consciously literary and a way of avoiding writing a true historical, which at the time of publication was a genre mostly out of favour and only rehabilitated by combining it with mysteries as in the Cadfael novels. The author wrote a much better true historical novel, 'Mr Wroe's Virgins', so I had expected better and really can only award this a 2 star 'OK' rating and that on the basis of the 18th century component.… (altro)