This Cold Country - Hardcover

Davis-Goff, Annabel

 
9780151008476: This Cold Country
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0151008477 ISBN 13: 9780151008476
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

The author of the New York Times Notable Book The Dower House, known for her elegant prose and her keen eye for the nuances of class, now adds the lush, large-screen immediacy of a Merchant-Ivory film to her compelling tale of a woman and a culture forever changed by World War II.
Only a few days after Daisy Creed precipitously marries Patrick Nugent, scion of an Anglo-Irish family, Patrick rejoins his regiment in France. Having never met her in-laws, Daisy sets sail for her new home, Dunmaine, County Waterford. The family's affairs echo its estate: grand and forbidding on the outside, decaying and corrupt within. Patrick's vain, spoiled sister, Corisande, soon flees to her lover, leaving Daisy alone with Patrick's feeble brother, Mickey, and grandmother, Maud, who has taken to her bed. In her determination to save Dunmaine and secure her place as its mistress, Daisy unwittingly becomes an accomplice in a dangerous political plot, as old and as fraught as The Troubles.
With grace and wit, Davis-Goff portrays a lost way of life and the war
that rendered it obsolete. In the character of Daisy Creed she has created
an unforgettable Everywoman of her time--part Elizabeth Bennett, part Scarlett O'Hara.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Annabel Davis-Goff is the author of The Dower House and Walled Gardens. Born in County Waterford, Ireland, she makes her home in New York City.


Annabel Davis-Goff is the author of The Dower House and Walled Gardens. Born in County Waterford, Ireland, she makes her home in New York City.

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Verlag
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0151008477
ISBN 13 
9780151008476
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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