The Hero of this Book: 'A sublime gift’ Meg Mason

di Elizabeth McCracken (Autore)

Vintage Publishing, 2023

‘A sublime gift’ MEG MASON A taut, ground-breaking new novel about a writer's relationship with her larger-than-life mother - and about the very nature of writing. Ten months after her mother’s death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book walks across London on a quiet Sunday. The city was a favourite of her mother’s, and as the narrator wanders the streets, she finds herself recalling all that made her complicated mother extraordinary. Even though the woman, a writer, wants to respect her mother’s nearly pathological sense of privacy, she must decide whether making a chronicle of this remarkable life constitutes an act of love or betrayal. * A New Yorker, Time, Washington Post, Oprah Daily and NPR Book of the Year * ‘I absolutely loved it. A moving portrayal of daughterhood…suffused with warmth and love’ MEGAN HUNTER, author of The Harpy ‘Confirms McCracken as among the finest contemporary chroniclers of everyday life… wonderful’ GUARDIAN ‘Tender, funny, heartbreaking… a writer who always delights’ RUMAAN ALAM, author of Leave the World Behind

• Autore: Elizabeth McCracken
• Editore: Vintage Publishing
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 192 p.
• Dimensioni: 198 x 130 mm
• Peso: 141 gr.
• EAN: 9781529919653

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