Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories
Author: Rose TremainPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0099284278
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
From the author of The Gustav Sonata At the moment that Colonel Browne is standing in the shallow end of the swimming pool of the Hotel Alphenrose, preparing for his late afternoon dip, his daughter Charlotte, carrying a suitcase, is getting out of her car back in England, preparing to rob the ancestral home. It is not just another day- it is the culmination of hundreds of days, hundreds of disappointments and misunderstandings, and thousands of very small lies... Over a million Rose Tremain books sold 'A writer of exceptional talent ... Tremain is a writer who understands every emotion' Independent I 'There are few writers out there with the dexterity or emotional intelligence to rival that of the great Rose Tremain' Irish Times 'Tremain has the painterly genius of an Old Master, and she uses it to stunning effect' The Times 'Rose Tremain is one of the very finest British novelists' Salman Rushdie 'Tremain is a writer of exemplary vision and particularity. The fictional world is rendered with extraordinary vividness' Marcel Theroux, Guardian
The Colonel's Wife
Author: Rosa LiksomPublisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1644451077
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
A bold, dark-hued novel by a writer who “conjures beauty from the ugliest of things” (The Wall Street Journal) In the final twilit moments of her life, an elderly woman looks back on her years in the thrall of fascism and Nazism. Both her authoritarian tendencies and her ecstatic engagement with the natural world are vividly and terrifyingly evoked in The Colonel’s Wife, an astonishing and brave novel that resonates painfully with our own strained political moment. At once complex and hideous, sexually liberated and sympathetic to the darkest of political movements, the narrator describes her childhood as the daughter of a member of the right-wing Finnish Whites before World War II, and the way she became involved with and eventually married the Colonel, who was thirty years her senior. During the war, he came and went as they fraternized with the Nazi elite and retreated together into the deepest northern wilds. As both the marriage and the war turn increasingly dark and destructive, Rosa Liksom renders a complex and unsavory character in a prose style that is striking in its paradoxical beauty. Based on a true story, The Colonel’s Wife is both a brilliant portrayal of an individual psychology and a stark warning about the perils of nationalism.
The colonel's daughter
Author: The Colonel's Daughter
Author: Charles KingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Daughters of the Late Colonel
Author: Katherine MansfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Colonel's Lady
Author: Laura FrantzPublisher: Revell
ISBN: 080073341X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
In 1779, a search for her father brings Roxanna to the Kentucky frontier--but she discovers instead a young colonel, a dark secret...and a compelling reason to stay.
The Colonel's Daughter
Author: Rose TremainPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 144645049X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
From the author of The Gustav Sonata At the moment that Colonel Browne is standing in the shallow end of the swimming pool of the Hotel Alphenrose, preparing for his late afternoon dip, his daughter Charlotte, carrying a suitcase, is getting out of her car back in England, preparing to rob the ancestral home. It is not just another day: it is the culmination of hundreds of days, hundreds of disappointments and misunderstandings, and thousands of very small lies... Over a million Rose Tremain books sold ‘A writer of exceptional talent ... Tremain is a writer who understands every emotion’ Independent I ‘There are few writers out there with the dexterity or emotional intelligence to rival that of the great Rose Tremain’ Irish Times ‘Tremain has the painterly genius of an Old Master, and she uses it to stunning effect’ The Times ‘Rose Tremain is one of the very finest British novelists’ Salman Rushdie ‘Tremain is a writer of exemplary vision and particularity. The fictional world is rendered with extraordinary vividness’ Marcel Theroux, Guardian
The Colonel's Daughter
Author: Charles KingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Colonel's Daughter
Author: Merline LovelacePublisher:
ISBN: 9780739422793
Category : Badlands (S.D. and Neb.)
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
She wasn't afraid to fight ... Beneath the polish of an Eastern finishing school lies a soldier's daughter who can ride, shoot and deal cards with the best. Which is why Suzanne Bonneaux calmly boards the infamous Cheyenne-Deadwood stage to search for a longtime friend before the winter snows erase her trail.
The Colonel's Daughter
Author: Charles KingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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