Mary Renault

Gebundenes Buch

The Charioteer

A Virago Modern Classic

Beschreibung

First published in 1953, The Charioteer is a tender, intelligent coming-of-age novel and a bold, unapologetic portrayal of homosexuality that stands with Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar and James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room as a landmark work in gay literature.

Autor

Mary Renault (1905-1983) was born in London and educated at St Hughs, Oxford. She trained as a nurse at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary, where she met her lifelong partner, Julie Mullard. Her first novel, Purposes of Love , was published in 1937. In 1948, after North Face won a MGM prize worth $150,000, she and Mullard emigrated to South Africa. There, Renault was able to write forthrightly about homosexual relationships for the first time - in her masterpiece, The Charioteer (1953), and then in her first historical novel, The Last of the Wine (1956). Renault's vivid novels set in the ancient world brought her worldwide fame. In 2010 Fire From Heaven was shortlisted for the Lost Booker of 1970.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 204mm x 129mm x 22mm
• ISBN-13: 9780349020747
• ISBN-10: 0349020744
• Artikelnr.: 74437800