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`A sublime gift MEG MASON

From the bestselling author, a taut, heartrending new novel about a writers relationship with her larger-than-life mother.

Ten months after her mothers death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book walks across London on a quiet Sunday. The city was a favourite of her mothers, and as the narrator wanders the streets, she finds herself recalling all that made her complicated mother extraordinary. Even though the woman, a writer, wants to respect her mothers nearly pathological sense of privacy, she must decide whether making a chronicle of this remarkable life constitutes an act of love or betrayal.

* A New Yorker, Time, Washington Post, Oprah Daily and NPR Book of the Year *

`I absolutely loved it. A moving portrayal of daughterhoodsuffused with warmth and love
MEGAN HUNTER

`Confirms McCracken as among the finest contemporary chroniclers of everyday life wonderful
GUARDIAN

`Tender, funny, heartbreaking a writer who always delights
RUMAAN ALAM

`A sublime gift MEG MASON

From the bestselling author, a taut, heartrending new novel about a writers relationship with her larger-than-life mother.

Ten months after her mothers death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book walks across London on a quiet Sunday. The city was a favourite of her mothers, and as the narrator wanders the streets, she finds herself recalling all that made her complicated mother extraordinary. Even though the woman, a writer, wants to respect her mothers nearly pathological sense of privacy, she must decide whether making a chronicle of this remarkable life constitutes an act of love or betrayal.

* A New Yorker, Time, Washington Post, Oprah Daily and NPR Book of the Year *

`I absolutely loved it. A moving portrayal of daughterhoodsuffused with warmth and love
MEGAN HUNTER

`Confirms McCracken as among the finest contemporary chroniclers of everyday life wonderful
GUARDIAN

`Tender, funny, heartbreaking a writer who always delights
RUMAAN ALAM

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 192 S.
ISBN-13: 9781529919653
ISBN-10: 1529919657
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Mccracken, Elizabeth
Hersteller: Vintage Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 194 x 130 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Elizabeth Mccracken
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.11.2023
Gewicht: 0,142 kg
Artikel-ID: 126943535