Name: An Awfully Big Adventure (en Inglés)
SKU: 66112364
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Author: Bainbridge, Beryl; Li, Yiyun
ISBN: 9781961341920

portada An Awfully Big Adventure (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

McNally Editions

Autor

Bainbridge, Beryl; Li, Yiyun

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

216

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.3x12.7x2.3 cm

ISBN13

9781961341920

An Awfully Big Adventure (en Inglés)

Bainbridge, Beryl; Li, Yiyun (Autor) · McNally Editions · Tapa Blanda

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A blackly comic story of the secrets, sex, and violence behind the curtain of a repertory theater's postwar production of Peter Pan: its "close observation and hilarity are underlain by a sense of tragedy as deep as any in fiction." (The Times)) Liverpool, 1950. Against the grimy backdrop of the gray postwar city, a shabby, scandal-steeped repertory theater company rehearses for their Christmas performance of Peter Pan. Treading the boards for the first time is sixteen-year-old Stella Bradshaw, ambitious, idealistic, and still overwhelmingly innocent. She falls hard for the rakish, monocled director, Meredith Potter, but, unable to attract his attentions--and not understanding why he's spending quite so much time with their male colleagues--she turns to another colleague to initiate her into the ways of love. Enter the celebrated P. L. O'Hara, a dashing leading man who's nursing secrets of his own. When the curtain is up, fantastical entertainment abounds, but backstage a very different drama is playing out: a pitch-black comedy of indiscretion, intrigue, and eventual tragedy. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and dusted with that magical "air of Pinteresque menace and Sparkian malice [that] lingers around the margins of [all of Beryl Bainbridge's] fiction," (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Book Review), An Awfully Big Adventure is one of the author's very best--and best-loved--novels.