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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Hauntdi A. L. Barker
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. If my arithmetic can be trusted, the author was 81 years old when she wrote this book. That deserves 3 stars at the get go. I'm no where near that age and my powers are maxed out with the construction of a simple review like this! A motley collection of characters gather in and around a quirky little hotel in Cornwall. All fail in their relationships with their "significant others", yet continue to seek significance with others who are even less likely to satisfy their restless spirits. Barker is one of those writers who seem to relish blighting the lives of their characters in comic-ironic ways. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Set in 'old forest country' on the tip of Cornwall, The Haunt is a seedy, dishevelled and decaying hotel, but like the forest itself, with the germ of the legendary Cornish great forest at its heart, The Haunt is a place that welcomes those with longings, with their own deep-seated, incommunicable fears. There is the elderly couple who have just moved to the country, there to find solace but in fact discovering love of a different kind. The child who is odd and needs a friend. The eccentric painter, the loner whose wife has left him. With her precise, pithy use of language and clear sense of judgement, A. L.Barker's THE HAUNT is a wholly original novel which picks up a clutch of characters and slowly reveals the very eccentricities that drive them. 'She is a quietly excellent and very English writer, who believes in fatalism as others believe in action. She deserves to be read and read again.' Anita Brookner Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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