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Alice in Exile. A Novel.

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Descripción Taschenbuch. Kartoniert. Condición: Wie neu. 412 Seiten. 18 cm. Mass market paperback, verv good condition. Aus der Bibliothek der Gräfin Ledebur. Sehr guter Zustand. Frisches Exemplar. Wie ungelesen. Piers Paul Read's most successful work of fiction to date was an historical novel set during the Second World War, The Free Frenchman. This new novel, in a similar vein, is a love story set in England, France and Russia, played out against the turbulent backdrop of the First World War. Full of moral and emotional conflict, this is the story of a strong, independent-minded woman caught between two men, and of lovers forced apart by their different social backgrounds and the terrible circumstances of war. "Alice in Exile is profoundly conventional, absolutely old-fashioned, and I confess to having missed a highly advertised fiesta in a Mexican mountain town just so I could stay in the hotel and find out what happened, from 1913 to 1920, to Alice Fry, her ninny upper-class English lover, Edward Cobb, and her aristocratic Russian protector, Pavel Rettenberg, who ends up being the love of her life." --Carolyn See, Washington Post. - iers Paul Read, FRSL (born 7 March 1941) is an award-winning English novelist, historian and biographer. He was first noted in 1974 for a book of reportage Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, later adapted as a feature-film and a documentary. This was followed by some well-acclaimed novels that criticised English middle-class ethics from the less-usual viewpoint of a right-wing practising Catholic, with sin and redemption as recurring themes. Among his most popular works are The Professor's Daughter, A Married Man, and A Season in the West. Read is also a dramatist and TV scriptwriter. . Themes: Read's novels are strongly influenced by his Catholic faith.[8] His stories focus on the religious themes of sin and redemption. Read writes in a fairly traditional, linear style and he often uses plot elements from popular fiction, especially the thriller, like espionage, murder and conspiracy theories. Most of his main characters are fairly unsympathetic and some of them commit horrific deeds before they finally convert to God. Almost all of Read's novels are set in Europe. Many of his books show a great interest and sympathy especially for Germany quite unusual in British literature and for Eastern European countries like Russia and Poland. In The Knights of the Cross, he explicitly satirises the expectations and prejudices of the British readership towards the Germans. . From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 254 Erste Auflage dieser Ausgabe. New edition. Nº de ref. del artículo: 51365

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