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Crusoe's Daughter
Jane Gardam
出版
Europa Editions
, 2012-04-24
主題
Fiction / Biographical
Fiction / Women
Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Literary
ISBN
1609458826
9781609458829
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=y8W2DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
From the award-winning author of
Old Filth
. “[A]
wonderfully old-fashioned novel . . . This post-Victorian charmer is an engrossing delight” (
People
).
In 1904, six-year-old Polly Flint is sent by her sea captain father to live with her aunts in a house by the sea on England’s northeast coast. Orphaned shortly thereafter, Polly will spend the next eighty years stranded in this quiet corner of the world as the twentieth century rages in the background. Through it all, Polly returns again and again to the story of Robinson Crusoe, who, marooned like her, fends off the madness of isolation with imagination.
In the
Guardian
’s series on writers and readers’ favorite comfort books, associate editor Claire Armitstead said of
Crusoe’s Daughter
, “This is the most bookish of books . . . Every time I return to it, I am comforted by its refusal to conform, its wonderful, boisterous bolshiness, and the intelligence with which it demonstrates that we are what we read.”
“Witty, subversive, moving.” —
The Times
(London)
“[A] richly textured novel . . . much occurs on the emotional landscape. We know Polly intimately, and she haunts our imaginations as surely as Crusoe haunts hers . . . a thought-provoking book.” —
Library Journal
“[The] most seductively entertaining of British novelists.” —
Kirkus Reviews