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We know from the earliest pages of Neil Jordan's numinous, slow-building fourth novel, Shade that its narrator, 50-old Nina Hardy, has been murdered with a pair of gardening shears by her childhood friend George Truite. The mystery is not who has committed this crime, but why. And although George has been for some years a resident of the local insane asylum, only recently allowed to experiment again with independent living, his madness is but a small part of the answer to that question. Set in Ireland near Drogheda, at the mouth of the river Boyne, Shade casts a wistful eye on childhood desires and alliances, and its lonely-girl-in-a-big-house beginnings will call to mind William Trevor's The Story of Lucy Gault . But like Jordan's greatest success, the film The Crying Game , this novel is full of surprises - and the biggest shocks are not always the most telling. - Jill Harvey
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Shade, Neil Jordan
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2005
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- 1,59 €
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- Titolo
- Shade
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Neil Jordan
- Editore
- Hodder Pb
- Pubblicato
- 2005
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 319
- ISBN10
- 0719561884
- ISBN13
- 9780719561887
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Gialli & Thriller, Fantasy, Prosa storica, Gialli, Amore, Famiglia, Amicizia, Tensione, Prosa di guerra, Guerre, Omicidi, Fenomeni soprannaturali, Divertimento, Irlanda, Infanzia, Letteratura irlandese, Attori e attrici, Frodi
- Titolo originale
- Shade
- Valutazione
- 2,95 su 5
- Descrizione
- We know from the earliest pages of Neil Jordan's numinous, slow-building fourth novel, Shade that its narrator, 50-old Nina Hardy, has been murdered with a pair of gardening shears by her childhood friend George Truite. The mystery is not who has committed this crime, but why. And although George has been for some years a resident of the local insane asylum, only recently allowed to experiment again with independent living, his madness is but a small part of the answer to that question. Set in Ireland near Drogheda, at the mouth of the river Boyne, Shade casts a wistful eye on childhood desires and alliances, and its lonely-girl-in-a-big-house beginnings will call to mind William Trevor's The Story of Lucy Gault . But like Jordan's greatest success, the film The Crying Game , this novel is full of surprises - and the biggest shocks are not always the most telling. - Jill Harvey