Adam Foulds

Broschiertes Buch

The Quickening Maze

Beschreibung

Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeAfter a lifetime's struggle with alcohol, critical neglect and depression, in 1840 the nature poet John Clare is incarcerated.

Autor

Adam Foulds's most recent books are In the Wolf's Mouth, The Quickening Maze, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and the European Union Prize for Literature, and The Broken Word, which won the Costa Poetry Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. He has recently been awarded the E.M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and named as one of Granta's 'Best of Young British Novelists'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 620801
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 131mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 198g
• ISBN-13: 9780099532446
• ISBN-10: 0099532441
• Artikelnr.: 28249623

Rezensionen

A seamless blend of historical fact and fiction...Foulds's writing has a poetic intensity and his descriptions of the autumnal woods around the asylum are as piercingly keen as his insight into the minds of the patients, the doctor and his family Daily Mail