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Larchfield is that rarest of rare first novels - a book that actually achieves its great ambition. I found it so immensely readable; it's brainy, verbally acute and knowing, with an ingenious literary historical premise that it impressively (and artfully) carries off right in front of your eyes. It's work of considerable talent (Richard Ford)
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It's 1930 and an awkward and brilliant young man of twenty-four arrives to teach at a crumbling prep school in Helensburgh, a seaside town in the west of Scotland. The young man is W.H. Auden and the next two years will transform and torment him in equal measure.
It's 2008 and a woman poet, Dora Fielding, arrives into Helensburgh, newly married and pregnant. She is excited about the prospect of a new life that combines motherhood and creativity, but finds the reality of small town life suffocating and, eventually, terrifying.
The human need for connection drives these two brave and vulnerable outsiders to find each other and make a reality of their own that will save them both. Larchfield is about the ability of the human imagination to transcend terrible circumstances.
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- VerlagHachette Collections
- Erscheinungsdatum2017
- ISBN 10 1786481936
- ISBN 13 9781786481931
- EinbandTapa blanda
- Anzahl der Seiten368
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Larchfield: The moving, gripping and wonderful debut about finding human connection
ISBN 10: 1786481936
ISBN 13: 9781786481931
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 'Mysterious, wondrous, captivating' Louis de Bernieres 'We need the courage to choose ourselves' W. H. Auden It's early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland and her hopes are first challenged. Newly married, pregnant, she's excited by the prospect of a life that combines family and creativity. She thinks she knows what being a person, a wife, a mother, means. She is soon shown that she is wrong. As the battle begins for her very sense of self, Dora comes to find the realities of small town life suffocating, and, eventually, terrifying; until she finds a way to escape reality altogether. Another poet, she discovers, lived in Helensburgh once. Wystan H. Auden, brilliant and awkward at 24, with his first book of poetry published, should be embarking on success and society in London. Instead, in 1930, fleeing a broken engagement, he takes a teaching post at Larchfield School for boys where he is mocked for his Englishness and suspected - rightly - of homosexuality. Yet in this repressed limbo Wystan will fall in love for the first time, even as he fights his deepest fears. The need for human connection compels these two vulnerable outsiders to find each other and make a reality of their own that will save them both. Echoing the depths of Possession, the elegance of The Stranger's Child and the ingenuity of Longbourn, Larchfield is a beautiful and haunting novel about heroism - the unusual bravery that allows unusual people to go on living; to transcend banality and suffering with the power of their imagination. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Artikel-Nr. GOR008381833
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