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La Via Radiosa

Questa trilogia narra le vite di tre donne eccezionalmente dotate e ambiziose che intraprendono il loro percorso dopo l'università negli anni '50. Segue i loro percorsi professionali e personali, esplorando amori, perdite, speranze e paure nel corso di diversi decenni. Le opere catturano magistralmente i cambiamenti sociali e le complessità delle relazioni intime, offrendo profonde riflessioni sulla vita delle donne e sul loro ruolo in evoluzione in un mondo che cambia.

A Natural Curiosity
The radiant way

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  1. The radiant way

    • 400pagine
    • 14 ore di lettura

    Liz, Alix and Esther were among the most brilliant of their generation. To these three gifted and ambitious young women, fresh from Cambridge in the 1950s, the world offered its riches ...On New Year's Eve 1979 they reunite. What does the future now hold for Liz, assured Harley Street psychotherapist, wife, mother and stepmother; for relentlessly well-intentioned Alix, teaching English literature to young girl offenders; and for Esther, eccentric connoisseur of art and resolutely single. Margaret Drabble's magnificent novel explores the lives of these three women, and in telling of their loves and losses, their hopes and fears, she creates an unforgettable panorama of our changing times. 'A sublime example of Miss Drabble's mastery in unravelling the intricacies of intimate relationships' - The Times'The Radiant Way shows a Dickensian desire to encompass the whole of contemporary British life, with its widening social and regional gulfs ... Humane, intelligent

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  2. A Natural Curiosity

    • 308pagine
    • 11 ore di lettura

    Rich in character and incident, A Natural Curiosity sweeps the reader from smart London townhouses to a run-down embassy in the Middle East, from the splendours of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris to drowsy afternoons in the hills of sunny Italy, as we re-encounter Alix, Liz, and Esther, three erudite, middle-aged, Cambridge-educated women living in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain. The story opens in 1987, when Alix, a conscientious social worker, befriends a convicted killer, when a dazed housewife begins an affair with a stranger after her husband’s suicide, and a comfort-loving TV executive undertakes to rescue a friend who’s been kidnapped by terrorists. A Natural Curiosity is wondrous and astute, and in Margaret Drabble’s hands, the seemingly improbable becomes vividly real.

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