The Devil's Music
(Sprache: Englisch)
A haunting, lyrical story of love, betrayal, and family secrets buried in the shifting landscape of memory A haunting, lyrical story of love, betrayal, and family secrets buried in the shifting landscape of memory
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A haunting, lyrical story of love, betrayal, and family secrets buried in the shifting landscape of memory A haunting, lyrical story of love, betrayal, and family secrets buried in the shifting landscape of memory
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It is 1958 and the Sputnik satellite has taken a dog up into space; back on earth, five-year-old Andy has a new sister, Elaine - a baby who, his father insists, is 'not quite all there'. While his parents argue over whether or not to send Elaine away, Andy sleeps beside her cot each night, keeping guard and watching as his mother - once an ambitious, energetic nurse - twists away into her private, suffocating sadness. Knots keep treasures safe, Andy's rope-maker grandfather tells him, and, as he listens to stories of the great Harry Houdini, Andy learns the Carrick Bend, the Midshipman's Hitch and the Monkey's Fist. Then a young painter, hired to decorate the family's house, seems to call Andy's mother back from the grief in which she is lost. But one day, at The Siding - the old railway carriage that serves as the family's seaside retreat - Andy is left in charge of his baby sister on a wind-chopped beach, where he discovers that not all treasures can be kept safe for ever. Three decades later Andrew returns from self-imposed exile to The Siding, the place where his life first unravelled. Looking back on the broken strands of his childhood, he tries, at last, to weave them together, aided by his grandfather's copy of The Ashley Book of Knots and the arrival of a wild-haired, tango-dancing sculptor - a woman with her own ideas about making peace with the past. LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2011
Autoren-Porträt von Jane Rusbridge
Rusbridge, JaneJane Rusbridge is the author of The Devil's Music. She lives near the coast in West Sussex with her husband, a farmer, and the youngest of their five children. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Chichester, where she was the recipient of the Philip Lebrun Prize for Creative Writing and is Associate Lecturer in English.
www.janerusbridge.co.uk
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Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jane Rusbridge
- 2010, 320 Seiten, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 1408801019
- ISBN-13: 9781408801017
Sprache:
Englisch
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