ColdComfortFarm(PenguinEssentials)

作者 Stella Gibbons著
出版社 VikingBooks
出版时间 2011年4月第1版
ISBN 9780241951514
定价 68.00

内容简介

'Wearenotlikeotherfolk,maybe,buttherehavealwaysbeenStarkaddersatColdComfortFarm...'Sensible,sophisticatedFloraPostehasbeenexpensivelyeducatedtodoeverythingbutearnaliving.Whensheisorphanedattwenty,shedecidesheronlyoptionistodescendonrelatives–thedoomedStarkaddersattheaptlynamedColdComfortFarm.ThereisJudithinascarletshawl,heavingwithremorseforanunspokenwickedness;ravingoldAdaDoom,whooncesawsomethingnastyinthewoodshed;lustfulSethanddespairingReuben,Judith'stwosons;andthereisAmos,preachingfireanddamnationtooneandall.Asthesukebindflowers,Floratakeseachofthefamilyinhandandbringsordertotheirchaos.ColdComfortFarmisasharpandcleverparodyofthemelodramaticandruralnovel.'Screaminglyfunnyandwildlysubversive'MarianKeyes,Guardian

作者简介

StellaGibbonswasborninLondonin1902.ShewenttoNorthLondonCollegiateSchoolandstudiedjournalismatUniversityCollege,London.Shethenworkedfortenyearsonvariouspapers,includingtheEveningStandard.Herfirstpublicationwasabookofpoems,TheMountainBeast(1930),andherfirstnovel,ColdComfortFarm(1932),wontheFeminaVieHeureusePrize.AmongstherothernovelsareMissLinseyandPa(1936),NightingaleWood(1938),Westwood(1946),ConferenceatColdComfortFarm(1949)andBesidethePearlyWater(1954).StellaGibbonsdiedin1989.