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Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile

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ISBN/EAN: 9781783525508
Umbreit-Nr.: 5249536

Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 640 S., 0.72 MB
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Erschienen am 14.06.2018
Auflage: 1/2018


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  • Zusatztext
    • <b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019</b><br><br><b>Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019</b><b><br><br>2019 </b><b>Walter Scott Prize Academy </b><b>recommendation</b><i><br><br>If you tell a story oft enough</i><br><i>So it become true<br><br></i>As the nineteenth century draws towards a close, Mary Ann Sate, an elderly maidservant, sets out to write her truth.<br><i><br></i>She writes of the Valleys that she loves, of the poisonous rivalry between her employer's two sons and of a terrible choice which tore her world apart.<br><i><br></i>Her haunting and poignant story brings to life a period of strife and rapid social change, and evokes the struggles of those who lived in poverty and have been forgotten by history.<br><br>In this fictional found memoir, novelist Alice Jolly uses the astonishing voice of Mary Ann to recreate history as seen from a woman's perspective and to give joyful, poetic voice to the silenced women of the past.<i></i>
  • Kurztext
    • SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 20192019 Walter Scott Prize Academy recommendationIf you tell a story oft enoughSo it become trueAs the nineteenth century draws towards a close, Mary Ann Sate, an elderly maidservant, sets out to write her truth.She writes of the Valleys that she loves, of the poisonous rivalry between her employer's two sons and of a terrible choice which tore her world apart.Her haunting and poignant story brings to life a period of strife and rapid social change, and evokes the struggles of those who lived in poverty and have been forgotten by history.In this fictional found memoir, novelist Alice Jolly uses the astonishing voice of Mary Ann to recreate history as seen from a woman's perspective and to give joyful, poetic voice to the silenced women of the past.
  • Autorenportrait
    • <p>Alice Jolly is a novelist and playwright. Her memoir<i>Dead Babies and Seaside Towns</i>won the PEN Ackerley Prize 2016. She also won the V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize awarded by the Royal Society of Literature in 2014 for one of her short stories, Ray the Rottweiler. She has written two novels previously,<i>What the Eye Doesnt See</i>and&nbsp;<i>If Only You Knew</i>. Her next novel,<i>Between the Regions of Kindness</i>, will be published in 2019. She has written for the<i>Guardian</i>,<i>Mail on Sunday</i>and the<i>Independent</i>, and she has broadcast for Radio 4. She lives in Stroud, Gloucestershire.<br></p>