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The Orchard on Fire

Name: The Orchard on Fire
Price: 3.99 EUR
Author: Shena Mackay
ISBN: 9780349007229

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Shena Mackay

Virago
Paru le : 06/04/2016

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE (1996) 'The Orchard on Fire is probably Mackay's most perfect book' PHILIP HENSHER, GUARDIAN 'A bitter-sweet, gentle... > Lire la suite

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE (1996) 'The Orchard on Fire is probably Mackay's most perfect book' PHILIP HENSHER, GUARDIAN 'A bitter-sweet, gentle novel, not given to grandstanding or preaching' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'Shena Mackay has brought off something quite rare' ANITA BROOKNER, SPECTATOR 'What made the orchard miraculous was an abandoned railway carriage, set down as if by magic, its wheels gone, anchored by long grass and nettles.
Ruby and I stared at it and each other .

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Date de parution : 06/04/2016
Editeur : Virago
Collection : Virago Modern Classics
ISBN : 978-0-349-00722-9
EAN : 9780349007229
Format : ePub

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Biographie de Shena Mackay

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.