Hilary Mantel

Broschiertes Buch

An Experiment in Love

Beschreibung

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year It was the year after Chappaquiddick, and all spring Carmel McBain had watery dreams about the disaster. Now she, Karina, and Julianne were escaping the dreary English countryside for a London University hall of residence. Interspersing accounts of her current position as a university student with recollections of her childhood and an ever difficult relationship with her longtime schoolmate Karina, Carmel reflects on a generation of girls desiring the power of men, but fearful of abandoning what is expected and proper. When these bright but confused young women land in late 1960s London, they are confronted with a slew of new preoccupations--sex, politics, food, and fertility--and a pointless grotesque tragedy of their own. Hilary Mantel's magnificent novel examines the pressures on women during the early days of contemporary feminism to excel--but not be too successful--in England's complex hierarchy of class and status.

Autor

Hilary Mantel was the author of the bestselling novel Wolf Hall and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies, which both won the Booker Prize. The final novel of the Wolf Hall trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and won world-wide critical acclaim. Mantel wrote seventeen celebrated books, including the memoir Giving Up the Ghost, and she was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the Walter Scott Prize, the Costa Book Award, the Hawthornden Prize, and many other accolades. In 2014, Mantel was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She died at age seventy in 2022.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: St. Martin's Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9780312426873
• ISBN-10: 0312426879
• Artikelnr.: 22493000

Rezensionen

'The most powerful of her novels, a near-faultless masterpiece of pathos, observation and feeling ... She writes like an angel.' Sunday Telegraph

'Hilary Mantel is a wonderfully unsurprised dissector of human motivation, and in An Experiment in Love she has written a bleak tale seamed with crackling wit.' Helen Dunmore, Observer

'Funny, tragic and wondefully perceptive, this is a book to be treasured, for the sheer quality of its writing and for its honesty.' Independent

'Mantel writes prose of imperturbable aplomp, crisp with irony and highlighted with deftly places, elegantly surprising images ... she has a penchant for caustic, spiky heroines and a sardonic ear for dialogue.' Sunday Times

'My favourite

novel of the year: An Experiment in Love is written with subtle perceptiveness, sharp wit and canny wisdom' Margaret Forster, Independent

'Cool unsentimental, and unassumingly authoritative.' Anita Brookner, Spectator

'The time is 1970, and it is wonderfully well evoked ... The skill with which Mantel manages her time-shifts, the precision of her writing, the acuteness of her observations, the seriousness of her themes, and the way in which she weaves them into a coherant whole, make this an unusually satisfying novel.' Allan Massie, Scotsman

'An Experiment in Love has much to say about its turbulant era, and is replete with the atmosphere of the cusp, with the prospect of irreversible change ... It is also a profoundly sad novel, to which Mantel's liberal sense of comedy and dazzling acuity for metaphor add an almost excruciating flavour.' Rachel Cusk, The Times