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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Captains and the Kings (originale 1972; edizione 1999)di Jennifer Johnston (Autore)
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HTML:Winner of the Author's Club First Novel Award: Alone with melancholic memories of his past, a widower finds new life after striking up a friendship with a village boy In County Wicklow, south of Dublin, Mr. Prendergast lives alone in the Big House of his village. A remnant of the long-gone days of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, Prendergast's mansion has been witness to many of the most important years of his life, including his childhood, marked by his mother's open preference for his older brother, Alexander. Following Alexander's death in the First World War, Prendergast traveled the world, returning home decades later to a greatly changed place. Now in the 1970s, his wife and daughter are both gone, leaving the house an empty monument to his isolation and melancholy. But when the young, redheaded Diarmid arrives on Prendergast's doorstep, the boy's thrill at the house's history sparks an unlikely friendshipâ??one that revives in Prendergast a sense of vitality and sets in motion a final, fateful confrontation with the outside world he'd shunned for so many years. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Into this loneliness comes Diarmid, a local lad whose awful parents want to offload him into work at the manor. Mr Predergast is dismissive. Apart from the fact that he can’t afford to pay Diarmid and he already has a gardener of sorts, he is ossified in his isolation. Quite properly, he sends Diarmid packing, with advice to pay more attention to schooling than he has done so far, if he really wants to be in the army.
But Diarmid worms his way into Mr Prendergast’s solitary life, and soon the old man finds himself enjoying reminiscing about games of toy soldiers with his brother, and he likes introducing Diarmid to books and poetry and history. This is all ok up to a point, but Diarmid’s parents still haven’t offloaded him and he’s still wagging school. What turns out to be even more significant is that is Sean is jealous… and then Diarmid runs away from home.
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