Francis Spufford
Autore di Golden Hill
Sull'Autore
Francis Spufford is also the author of I May Be Some Time. He was named Sunday Times (London) Young Writer of the Year and received the 1997 Somerset Maugham and Writers' Guild awards. He lives in London
Opere di Francis Spufford
Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense (2012) 394 copie
The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic (2007) — A cura di; Collaboratore; Collaboratore — 125 copie
The Stone Table 1 copia
Opere correlate
Il peggior viaggio del mondo: la spedizione antartica di Scott nella straordinaria testimonianza di un sopravvissuto (1922) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 1,902 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1964
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Istruzione
- University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall| BA)
- Attività lavorative
- non-fiction writer
- Relazioni
- Spufford, Margaret (mother)
Spufford, Peter (father) - Organizzazioni
- Goldsmiths, University of London
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
Utenti
Discussioni
2021 Booker Prize Longlist: Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford in Booker Prize (Agosto 2021)
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford in Historical Fiction (Febbraio 2017)
Recensioni
Liste
Bibliomemoirs (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 15
- Opere correlate
- 7
- Utenti
- 4,530
- Popolarità
- #5,544
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 175
- ISBN
- 115
- Lingue
- 11
- Preferito da
- 5
A certain Mr. Smith lands in New York fresh from England, and in need of exchanging an order for £1000. Such a phenomenal amount of money makes him the subject of much gossip, and an assured place in society. But all does not run smoothly. Pick pockets, a shrewish woman whom he nevertheless falls for, dissenters, bankers, churchgoers all rollick through the narrative. There are roof-top adventures, river trips, gaols, long mornings in coffee houses. Surprise tumbles in after surprise, though the biggest one of all is kept till last. I'm glad I read it. I repeat. I must read it again.… (altro)