Penelope Mortimer

Broschiertes Buch

The Pumpkin Eater

Beschreibung

With three husbands in her past, one in her present and a numberless army of children, Mrs Armitage is astonished to find herself collapsing one day in Harrods.

Autor

Penelope Mortimer was born in 1918 in Rhyl. At nineteen, she married a Reuters correspondent and had two daughters with him, as well as two more from other relationships. Her first novel, Johanna, was published in 1947. She re-married two years later, to John Mortimer, the barrister and author of the Rumpole novels; they had two children together and later divorced. Mortimer wrote many books, including The Pumpkin Eater (1962), which was adapted for the screen by Harold Pinter and made into a film starring Anne Bancroft and Peter Finch. Penelope Mortimer died in 1999.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Modern Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK / Penguin Classics
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 126g
• ISBN-13: 9780241240106
• ISBN-10: 0241240107
• Artikelnr.: 42587355