Ulverton
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品牌: Adam Thorpe
基本信息出版社:Vintage Books; New edition (1997年8月20日)平装:384页正文语种:英语ISBN:0749397047条形码:9780749397043商品尺寸:12.7 x 2.5 x 19.7 cm商品重量:286 g品牌:MinervaASIN:0749397047商品描述内容简介Made up of twelve self-contained narratives set in the fictional village of Ulverton from 1650 to 1988, each section of the novel, with the exception of the final chapter, has a narrator who is also the principle character. Chapters take the form of a diary, a narrators stream-of-consciousness, a series of letters and a traditional first person narrative.
Ulvertonis extraordinary in scope and ambition and the imaginative way that it deals with three centuries of seemingly authentic private experiences in rural England.作者简介Poet, playwright and novelist Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956 and grew up in India, Cameroon and England. After graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1979, he started a theatre company and toured villages and schools before moving to London where he taught Drama and English Literature. His first collection of poetry,Mornings in the Baltic(1988), was shortlisted for the 1988 Whitbread Poetry Award. His other books of poetry areMeeting Montaigne(1990) andFrom the Neanderthal(1999). He was awarded an Eric Gregory Award in 1985.
Thorpe's first novel,Ulverton(1992), was published to great critical acclaim and won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize in 1992. Following this were the novelsStill(1995) andPieces of Light(1998). In 2000 he published a book of short stories,Shifts(2000), and then another novel,Nineteen Twenty-One(2001). Adam's latest novel,No Telling, is published in 2003.
Adam Thorpe lives in France with his wife and three children.
