Redhill Rococo (Virago Modern Classics) - Softcover

Mackay, Shena

 
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A novel set in Redhill, Surrey, during a gloriously hot summer. Rebuffed by fortune, Luke Ribbons yearns for the alluringly fragrant bosom and soft, blousy mother-love of Pearl Slattery, but she doesn't share his romantic vision. The author's other books include "A Bowl of Cherries".

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Shena Mackay was born in Edinburgh in 1944. Her writing career began when she won a prize for a poem written when she was fourteen. Two novellas, Dust Falls on Eugene Schlumberger and Toddler on the Run were published before she was twenty. Redhill Rococo won the 1987 Fawcett Prize, Dunedin won a 1994 Scottish Arts Council Book Award, The Orchard on Fire was shortlisted for the 1996 Booker Prize and, in 2003, Heligoland was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and Whitbread Novel Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Southampton.

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ISBN 10:  0099270773 ISBN 13:  9780099270775
Verlag: Vintage, 1998
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