The Past von Tessa Hadley

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The “supremely perceptive writer of formidable skill and intelligence (New York Times Book Review) turns her astute eye to a dramatic family reunion, where simmering tensions and secrets come to a head over three long, hot summer weeks.

“A novel so evocative of summer and adolescence that to read it is to reexperience the deep languor and longing of those days.” — Tayari Jones, O Magazine

“Exquisite. . . . For anyone who cherishes Anne Tyler and Alice Munro, the book offers similar deep pleasures.”  — Ron Charles, Washington Post

Winner of the Windham Campbell Prize • Washington Post Best Book of the Year  A Time Best Book of the Year • San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Book of the Year • Huffington Post Best Fiction Book of the Year • New York Times Editors’ Choice

Three sisters and a brother, complete with children, a new wife, and an ex-boyfriend’s son, descend on their grandparents’ dilapidated old home in the Somerset countryside for a final summer holiday. The house is full of memories of their childhood and their past—their mother took them there to live when she left their father—but now, they may have to sell it. And beneath the idyllic pastoral surface lie tensions. As the family’s stories and silences intertwine over the course of three long, hot weeks, small disturbances build into familial crises, and a way of life—bourgeois, literate, ritualized, Anglican—winds down to its inevitable end.

 

"Beautifully written."
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The “supremely perceptive writer of formidable skill and intelligence (New York Times Book Review) turns her astute eye to a dramatic family reunion, where simmering tensions and secrets come to a head over three long, hot summer weeks.

“A novel so evocative of summer and adolescence that to read it is to reexperience the deep languor and longing of those days.” — Tayari Jones, O Magazine

“Exquisite. . . . For anyone who cherishes Anne Tyler and Alice Munro, the book offers similar deep pleasures.”  — Ron Charles, Washington Post

Winner of the Windham Campbell Prize • Washington Post Best Book of the Year  A Time Best Book of the Year • San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Book of the Year • Huffington Post Best Fiction Book of the Year • New York Times Editors’ Choice

Three sisters and a brother, complete with children, a new wife, and an ex-boyfriend’s son, descend on their grandparents’ dilapidated old home in the Somerset countryside for a final summer holiday. The house is full of memories of their childhood and their past—their mother took them there to live when she left their father—but now, they may have to sell it. And beneath the idyllic pastoral surface lie tensions. As the family’s stories and silences intertwine over the course of three long, hot weeks, small disturbances build into familial crises, and a way of life—bourgeois, literate, ritualized, Anglican—winds down to its inevitable end.

 

"Beautifully written."
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AutorHadley, Tessa
EinbandKartonierter Einband (Kt)
Erscheinungsjahr2020
Seitenangabe336 S.
LieferstatusLieferbar in ca. 20-45 Arbeitstagen
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
MasseH20.4 cm x B13.7 cm x D2.5 cm 253 g
CoverlagHarper Perennial (Imprint/Brand)
VerlagHarper Collins (US)

Über den Autor Tessa Hadley

Tessa Hadley, 1956 in Bristol geboren, wechselt zwischen zwei Rollen hin und her: Ihr »soziales Ich« kümmert sich um ihren Ehemann, ihre drei Söhne und ebenso viele Enkelkinder, während ihr »schreibendes Ich« geduldig hinter den Kulissen warten muss, bis es wieder auftreten darf. Aber das eine gäbe es nicht ohne das andere: Auch in ihrem Schreiben beschäftigt sich Hadley, wie ihre großen Vorbilder Jane Austen und Jean Rhys, mit dem Familienleben und sozialen Beziehungen. Bevor sie sich dem Schreiben widmete, arbeitete Tessa Hadley kurze Zeit - sehr unglücklich - als Lehrerin. Mit Ende dreißig studierte sie Kreatives Schreiben in Bath (wo sie heute unterrichtet) und promovierte mit einer Arbeit über Henry James. Ihren ersten Roman veröffentlichte sie erst mit 46. Für ihre Romane und Kurzgeschichten erhielt sie zahlreiche Preise, 2009 wurde sie zum Fellow der Royal Society of Literature gewählt.

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