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Product Identifiers
PublisherEuropa Editions, Incorporated
ISBN-10160945331X
ISBN-139781609453312
eBay Product ID (ePID)16038784238
Product Key Features
Book TitleBilgewater
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2016
TopicPsychological, Social Themes / Adolescence, School & Education, General, Coming of Age, People & Places / Europe, Humorous / General
GenreJuvenile Fiction, Fiction
AuthorJane Gardam
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight10.6 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2016-296355
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsPraise for Bilgewater "Lively...excellent."--The Times "A striking story."--TLS Praise for Jane Gardam "[Gardam] is a brilliant writer. Her prose sparkles with wit, compassion and humor." -- The Washington Post "[Gardam] is the best kind of literary escape: serious, mesmerizing, and deeply satisfying." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "It's hard...not to be charmed by a writer with Gardam's substantial gifts." -- The New York Times Book Review "Gardam's prose is so economical that no moment she describes is either gratuitous or wasted." -- The New Yorker "Gardam is a unique and wonderful writer."-- The Huffington Post, Praise for Bilgewater "Female adolescence as imagined by one of the 20th century's best--and most peculiar--writers." -- Kirkus Reviews "Lively...excellent." -- The Times "A striking story." -- TLS Praise for Jane Gardam "[Gardam] is a brilliant writer. Her prose sparkles with wit, compassion and humor." -- The Washington Post "[Gardam] is the best kind of literary escape: serious, mesmerizing, and deeply satisfying." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "It's hard...not to be charmed by a writer with Gardam's substantial gifts." -- The New York Times Book Review "Gardam's prose is so economical that no moment she describes is either gratuitous or wasted." -- The New Yorker "Gardam is a unique and wonderful writer." -- The Huffington Post
Dewey Decimal823.914
SynopsisOriginally published in 1977, Jane Gardam's Bilgewater is an affectionate and complex rendering-in-miniature of the discomforts of growing up and first love seen through the eyes of inimitable Marigold Green, an awkward, eccentric, highly intelligent girl. The Evening Standard described Bilgewater as "one of the funniest, most entertaining, most unusual stories about young love." Motherless and 16, Marigold is the headmaster's daughter at a private backwater all-boys school. To make matters worse, Marigold pines for head boy Jack Rose, reckons with the beautiful and domineering Grace, and yanks herself headlong out of her interior world and into the seething cauldron of adolescence. With everything happening all at once, Marigold faces the greatest of teenage crucibles. A smart and painterly romp in the rich tradition of The Hollow Land and A Long Way From Verona , Gardam's elegant, evocative prose, possessed of sharp irony and easy surrealism makes Bilgewater a book for readers of all ages., "A quirky coming-of-age story . . . Female adolescence as imagined by one of the 20th century's best--and most peculiar--writers" ( Kirkus Reviews ). Originally published in 1977, Jane Gardams Bilgewater is an affectionate and complex rendering-in-miniature of the discomforts of growing up and first love seen through the eyes of inimitable Marigold Green, an awkward, eccentric, highly intelligent girl. The Evening Standard described Bilgewater as "one of the funniest, most entertaining, most unusual stories about young love." Motherless and sixteen, Marigold is the headmaster's daughter at a private backwater all-boys school. To make matters worse, Marigold pines for head boy Jack Rose, reckons with the beautiful and domineering Grace, and yanks herself headlong out of her interior world and into the seething cauldron of adolescence. With everything happening all at once, Marigold faces the greatest of teenage crucibles. A smart and painterly romp in the rich tradition of The Hollow Land and A Long Way from Verona , Gardam's elegant, evocative prose, possessed of sharp irony and easy surrealism makes Bilgewater a book for readers of all ages. "This is no ordinary bildungsroman." -- New Pages "A striking story."-- Times Literary Supplement
LC Classification NumberPZ7.G163Bi 2016
Bewertungen und Rezensionen
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- 04. Feb. 2020
GOOD BUT NOT HER BEST
Not her best but worth reading nevertheless. Odd thing was that at first I thought it was too wordy but the more I read the better it got and I missed Bilgewater for a few days after I finished. IT DID MAKE ME LAUGH.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
