Author: HEIDI SOPINKA
Title: The Dictionary of Animal Languages. A novel
Description: Scribe, 2018. Linnen band met stofomslag. A thrillingly elegant yet raw evocation of a woman clawing her way to a creative life, inspired by the story of surrealist artist Leonora Carrington.nWe grant men a right to solitude. Why can't we do the same for women?nBorn into a wealthy family in northern England and sent to boarding school to be educated by nuns, Ivory Frame rebels. She escapes to inter-war Paris, where she finds herself through art, and falls in with the most brilliantly bohemian set: the surrealists.nTorn between an intense love affair with a married Russian painter and her soaring ambition to create, Ivory's life is violently interrupted by the Second World War. She flees from Europe, leaving behind her friends, her art, and her love.nNow over ninety, Ivory labours defiantly in the frozen north on her last, greatest work - a vast account of animal languages - alone except for her sharp research assistant, Skeet.nAnd then unexpected news from the past arrives: this magnificently fervent, complex woman is told that she has a grandchild, despite never having had a child of her own. ISBN: 9781911617020. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9781911617020
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Title: The Dictionary of Animal Languages. A novel
Description: Scribe, 2018. Linnen band met stofomslag. A thrillingly elegant yet raw evocation of a woman clawing her way to a creative life, inspired by the story of surrealist artist Leonora Carrington.nWe grant men a right to solitude. Why can't we do the same for women?nBorn into a wealthy family in northern England and sent to boarding school to be educated by nuns, Ivory Frame rebels. She escapes to inter-war Paris, where she finds herself through art, and falls in with the most brilliantly bohemian set: the surrealists.nTorn between an intense love affair with a married Russian painter and her soaring ambition to create, Ivory's life is violently interrupted by the Second World War. She flees from Europe, leaving behind her friends, her art, and her love.nNow over ninety, Ivory labours defiantly in the frozen north on her last, greatest work - a vast account of animal languages - alone except for her sharp research assistant, Skeet.nAnd then unexpected news from the past arrives: this magnificently fervent, complex woman is told that she has a grandchild, despite never having had a child of her own. ISBN: 9781911617020. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9781911617020
Price: EUR 10.00 = appr. US$ 10.87 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2355397
- Book number: 2355397
See more books from our catalog: Novels