GOLDEN STRAW THE - Tapa dura

Cookson, Catheri

 
9780593021354: GOLDEN STRAW THE
Tapa dura
ISBN 10: 0593021355 ISBN 13: 9780593021354
Editorial: Bantam Press, 1993

Sinopsis

A historical novel following YEAR OF THE VIRGINS and spanning the years from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. It tells the story of a milliner who falls in love with a hotel guest whilst on holiday in Nice. The relationship is to bring nothing but trouble to her and will affect the whole family for generations to come.

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Acerca del autor

Catherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer - her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 - her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many best-selling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998.

De la solapa interior

traw, as it would be named, was a large, broad-brimmed hat presented to Emily Pearson by her long-time friend and employer Mabel Arkwright, milliner and modiste. And before long it was to her employer that Emily owed the gift of the business itself, for Mabel was in poor health and had come to rely more and more on Emily before her untimely death in 1880.

While on holiday in France, Emily and the Golden Straw attracted the eye of Paul Steerman, a guest at the hotel, and throughout his stay he paid her unceasing attention. But Paul Steerman was not all he seemed to be and he was to bring nothing but disgrace and tragedy to Emily, precipitating a series of events that would influence the destiny of not only her children but her grandchildren too.

THE GOLDEN STRAW conceived on a panoramic scale, brilliantly portrays a whole rich vein of English life from the heyday of the Victorian era to the stormy middle years of the present century.  

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Editorial
Bantam Press
Año de publicación
1993
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0593021355
ISBN 13 
9780593021354
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
496
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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