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Sinopsis
Páginas:508Géneros:12:FA:Modern&contemporaryfiction(postc1945)12:FC:Classicfiction(prec1945)Sinopsis:ThefirstvolumeoftheChesterNimmotrilogy. ,BewitchinglybeautifulNinaWoodvilleisanintelligentandsensualwoman.Broughtupwithhercousin,JimLatter,sheisforcedintoanarrangedmarriageateighteenwithChesterNimmo. ,ChesterpursueshispoliticalcareerwithfierceambitionwhileNina,thoughdisturbedbyhisreligiouszeal,triestobeasupportivewife.ButmutualpassionbindsNinaandJimtogetherandtheirdestiniesbecomeentwinedwithpowerfullytragicconsequences. ,Earthyandfull-blooded,bothinnocentandwise,wefindinNinaawomanassensuousasEmmaBovary,asravagedasAnnaKarenina._,
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Reseña del editor
“The most powerful novel he’s written.”
Walter Allen
“Delicately ribald and unfailingly shrewd.”
The Times
“Whenever I am idle I choose a Cary novel in the way I might seek a friend’s company, and it is not long before I am encouraged, inspired to write.”
Paul Theroux
The first volume of the Chester Nimmo trilogy.
Bewitchingly beautiful Nina Woodville is an intelligent and sensual woman. Brought up with her cousin, Jim Latter, she is forced into an arranged marriage at eighteen with Chester Nimmo.
Chester pursues his political career with fierce ambition while Nina, though disturbed by his religious zeal, tries to be a supportive wife. But mutual passion binds Nina and Jim together and their destinies become entwined with powerfully tragic consequences.
Earthy and full-blooded, both innocent and wise, we find in Nina a woman as sensuous as Emma Bovary, as ravaged as Anna Karenina.
Biografía del autor
Joyce Cary was born in 1888 into an old Anglo-Irish family and educated at Clifton. He studied art, first in Edinburgh and then in Paris, before going up to Trinity College, Oxford, in 1909 to read law. On coming down he served as a Red Cross orderly in the Balkan War of 1912-13, the inspiration for Memoir of the Bobotes, before joining the Nigerian Political Service.
He served in the Nigeria Regiment during the First World War, was wounded while fighting in the Cameroons, and returned to civil duty in Nigeria in 1917 as a district officer. His time in Africa provided the inspiration for his first four novels. Though he settled in Oxford as a fulltime writer in 1920, it was not until 1932 that his first book was published. At the time of his death in 1957, he was recognised as one of the leading novelists in the world.
Cary is probably best known as a novelist and especially for Mister Johnson and ‘The First Tryptych’ (Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim and The Horse’s Mouth) in which the three main protagonists narrate their interlocking experiences and reveal their contrasting personalities. However he was also a fine short story writer, essayist and poet.
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- EditorialThistle Publishing
- Año de publicación2016
- ISBN 10 1910670251
- ISBN 13 9781910670255
- EncuadernaciónTapa blanda
- Número de páginas508
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