The Dressmaker: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 1973

ISBN-13: 9780349123707 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 192 str.

Beryl Bainbridge

Opis

Set in Liverpool during World War Two, The Dressmaker tells the story of Rita and her affair with an American G.I. Her aunts are sure he's feckless and are determined to prevent him from taking Rita back to the USA which is her chance to start a new life.

Recenzje

An impressive, haunting book...Like the better Hitchcock films, Beryl Bainbridge suggests a claustrophobic horror Sunday Times

O autorze

Beryl Bainbridge is the author of seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television. The Dressmaker, The Bottle Factory Outing, An Awfully Big Adventure, Every Man for Himself and Master Georgie (which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize) were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Every Man for Himself was awarded the Whitbread Novel of the Year Prize. She won the Guardian Fiction Prize with The Dressmaker and the Whitbread Prize with Injury Time. The Bottle Factory Outing, Sweet William and The Dressmaker have all been adapted for film, as was An Awfully Big Adventure, which starred Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman. Beryl Bainbridge died in July 2010.