Martin Goodman

On Bended Knees

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A coming of age story, set in the English Midlands in the 1960s, and Berlin of 1975.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barbican Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 130mm x 196mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 210g
• ISBN-13: 9781909954502
• ISBN-10: 1909954500
• Artikelnr.: 62951200

Autorenporträt

With this debut novel On Bended Knees, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award, Martin Goodman started to explore a major theme of his writing: the aftermath of wars. Born in Leicester, the adults of his English childhood all carried their wartime stories, and as a teenager in the ‘70s he moved to West Berlin to look back on that wartime era through German eyes. His nonfiction picked up the theme and his biography of the scientist J.S. Haldane, who worked to counter WW1 gas attacks, Suffer & Survive, won 1st Prize, Basis of Medicine in the BMA Book Awards. In Client Earth, which won the Jury’s Choice Business Book of the Year Award 2018, and the Green Book Award from Santa Monica Libraries, he told the story of ecolawyers who battle to rescue the planet from human destruction. He is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Hull. He lives in Los Angeles and London.