God On The Rocks
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1978
$26.97
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2008
Summary
During one glorious summer between the wars, the realities of life and the sexual ritual dance of the adult world creep into the life of young Margaret Marsh. Her father, preaching the doctrine of the unsavoury Primal Saints; her mother, bitterly nostalgic for what might have been; Charles and Binkie, anchored in the past and a game of words; dying Mrs Frayling and Lydia the maid, given to the vulgar enjoyment of life; all contribute to Margaret’s shattering moment of truth. And when the stor…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349121499 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349121494 |
| Author: | Jane Gardam |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2008 |
| Weight: | 162g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 16mm |
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A meticulously observed modern classic - INDEPENDENT
Exact, piquant and comical - OBSERVERTantalising … Funny, sharp - DAILY TELEGRAPHJane Gardam has a spectacular gift for detail of the local and period kind, and for details which make characters so subtly unpredictable that they ring true - TLSAbout The Author
Jane Gardam
Jane Gardam has been awarded the Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime’s contribution to the enjoyment of literature; has twice won a Whitbread Award and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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