Bethan Roberts

Broschiertes Buch

Graceland

Beschreibung

The lives of Gladys Presley and her son Elvis, across the boy's poor childhood, growing interest in the blues, ascent to fame and troubled years after are approached in the new novel from the author of "My Policeman", intoxicatingly conveying the mid-century American South.

Autor

Bethan Roberts has published five novels and writes stories and drama for BBC Radio 4. Her books include The Good Plain Cook (Serpent's Tail, 2008), which was a Radio 4 Book at Bedtime; My Policeman (Chatto & Windus, 2012), the story of a 1950s policeman, his wife, and his male lover (soon to be a major Amazon Original movie starring Harry Styles and Emma Corrin); and Mother Island (Chatto, 2014), which received a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered prize. Her latest novel, Graceland, tells the story of Elvis Presley and his mother, Gladys. She also writes short fiction, for which she has won the Society of Authors' Olive Cook Prize and the RA Pin Drop Award. Bethan has taught Creative Writing at Chichester University and Goldsmiths College, London. She lives in Brighton with her family.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 194mm x 129mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9781784708641
• ISBN-10: 178470864X
• Artikelnr.: 58659895