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Cover: 9781912854745 | Lux | a novel | Elizabeth Cook | Taschenbuch | 416 S. | Englisch
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Lux
a novel
Taschenbuch von Elizabeth Cook
Sprache: Englisch

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King David spies on beautiful Bathsheba as she bathes and his desire drives him to acts of such callousness that even his god turns away from him. Only through searching penitence and the psalms that express this can he find him way back into the light. A world and centuries away, King Henry VIII looks up at his prized tapestries of David and Bathsheba and sees in David a mighty predecessor, defender of the faith. Henry's courtier-poet, Sir Thomas Wyatt, sees instead two kings who take what they want, careless of the lives they destroy in the process - David's lust led him to murder, while Henry is ruthless in his pursuit of Ann Boleyn and the son she has promised him ... more ruthless still when she fails to provide an heir. Wyatt too, once dangerously close to Ann himself, is caught in the slipstream of wilful power. David's psalms of penitence reach across the years to touch and speak to him directly. Shackled in a cell in the Tower of London, not expecting to get out alive, he thinks of his beloved falcon Lukkes, and wishes he too could fly. Lux weaves past and present into a story of love and its reach, fidelity and faith, power and poetry, for readers of Marilynne Robinson, Anne Carson, and Hilary Mantel.
King David spies on beautiful Bathsheba as she bathes and his desire drives him to acts of such callousness that even his god turns away from him. Only through searching penitence and the psalms that express this can he find him way back into the light. A world and centuries away, King Henry VIII looks up at his prized tapestries of David and Bathsheba and sees in David a mighty predecessor, defender of the faith. Henry's courtier-poet, Sir Thomas Wyatt, sees instead two kings who take what they want, careless of the lives they destroy in the process - David's lust led him to murder, while Henry is ruthless in his pursuit of Ann Boleyn and the son she has promised him ... more ruthless still when she fails to provide an heir. Wyatt too, once dangerously close to Ann himself, is caught in the slipstream of wilful power. David's psalms of penitence reach across the years to touch and speak to him directly. Shackled in a cell in the Tower of London, not expecting to get out alive, he thinks of his beloved falcon Lukkes, and wishes he too could fly. Lux weaves past and present into a story of love and its reach, fidelity and faith, power and poetry, for readers of Marilynne Robinson, Anne Carson, and Hilary Mantel.
Über den Autor

Elizabeth Cook is an author, poet, librettist, and scholar. Born in Gibraltar, she spent her childhood in Nigeria and Dorset. She has been the British Academy Chatterton Lecturer, a Hawthornden Fellow, and is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow. She has written for publications including the London Review of Books, is the editor of the Oxford Authors John Keats and author of the acclaimed novel Achilles (Methuen and Picador USA) which, in a performance version, won a Fringe First at Edinburgh and has been performed at the National Theatre. She wrote the libretto for Francis Grier¿s The Passion of Jesus of Nazareth, commissioned and broadcast by the BBC. A new collection of poems, When I Kiss the Sky, is forthcoming. She lives in London.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Märchen & Sagen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 416
Inhalt: 416 S.
ISBN-13: 9781912854745
ISBN-10: 1912854740
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Cook, Elizabeth
Hersteller: Scribe Publications
Maße: 198 x 132 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Elizabeth Cook
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.10.2021
Gewicht: 0,335 kg
preigu-id: 118306398
Über den Autor

Elizabeth Cook is an author, poet, librettist, and scholar. Born in Gibraltar, she spent her childhood in Nigeria and Dorset. She has been the British Academy Chatterton Lecturer, a Hawthornden Fellow, and is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow. She has written for publications including the London Review of Books, is the editor of the Oxford Authors John Keats and author of the acclaimed novel Achilles (Methuen and Picador USA) which, in a performance version, won a Fringe First at Edinburgh and has been performed at the National Theatre. She wrote the libretto for Francis Grier¿s The Passion of Jesus of Nazareth, commissioned and broadcast by the BBC. A new collection of poems, When I Kiss the Sky, is forthcoming. She lives in London.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Märchen & Sagen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 416
Inhalt: 416 S.
ISBN-13: 9781912854745
ISBN-10: 1912854740
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Cook, Elizabeth
Hersteller: Scribe Publications
Maße: 198 x 132 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Elizabeth Cook
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.10.2021
Gewicht: 0,335 kg
preigu-id: 118306398
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