Fb2 The Distance Between Us ePub
by Maggie O'Farrell
Category: | Contemporary |
Subcategory: | Fiction |
Author: | Maggie O'Farrell |
ISBN: | 0755324463 |
ISBN13: | 978-0755324460 |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | Headline Review; Export Ed edition (2005) |
Pages: | 384 |
Fb2 eBook: | 1456 kb |
ePub eBook: | 1780 kb |
Digital formats: | lit azw mbr doc |
In The Distance Between Us, we meet Stella and Jake and, in typical Maggie O'Farrell fashion, we are also given their family histories.
In The Distance Between Us, we meet Stella and Jake and, in typical Maggie O'Farrell fashion, we are also given their family histories. As Ms. O'Farrell slowly lays the story out for us, one absorbing layer after another, we learn of the tragic chain of events that caused the deep dark secret Stella keeps, which she has spent her whole life trying to run away from and which has left her feeling unworthy of happiness.
The Distance Between Us book. Gripping, insightful and deft, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US by Maggie O'Farrell is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives, from the award-winning author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE. It was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller and won the Somerset Maugham Award.
Maggie O'Farrell writes with lyrical precision about sex, fear and sibling rivalry in The Distance Between Us, a. .
Maggie O'Farrell writes with lyrical precision about sex, fear and sibling rivalry in The Distance Between Us, a graceful and hypnotic novel. No surprise, then, that her new book, The Distance Between Us, opens with a similarly eerie setpiece: a woman sees a dishevelled red-haired man on Waterloo Bridge, an encounter which compels her to take flight from her life as a successful London radio producer. Once again, there is no explanation. We are immediately tumbled into the interlocking stories of an extended Scottish-Italian family; twins Stella and Nina; and Jake, a British film assistant far away in Hong Kong.
O'Farrell structures The Distance Between Us with vividly observed vignettes. The middle of the book features a finely sustained section of what film-makers would call "shot-reverse shot" in which we see a scene through Stella's eyes, then through Jake's. She slowly widens the circle of her narrative to take in family networks, "the stranglehold of family", as one character reflects. However, the emotional distance between these people, and finally between us and them, is too great to bridge. Elaine Showalter's books include Inventing Herself (Picador).
Gripping, insightful and deft, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US by Maggie O'Farrell is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives, from the award-winning author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE. On a cold February afternoon, Stella catches sight of a man she hasn't seen for many years, but instantly recognises.
Maggie O'Farrell is the author of the Sunday Times no. 1 bestselling memoir I AM, I AM, I AM, and eight novels: AFTER YOU'D GONE, MY LOVER'S LOVER, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A.
MAGGIE O'FARRELL is the author of six previous novels, After You’d Gone; My Lover’s Lover; The Distance Between Us, which won a Somerset Maugham Award; The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox.
MAGGIE O'FARRELL is the author of six previous novels, After You’d Gone; My Lover’s Lover; The Distance Between Us, which won a Somerset Maugham Award; The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox; The Hand That First Held Mine, which won the Costa Book Award; and Instructions for a Heatwave, which was short-listed for the Costa Book Award. The stunning new novel from nning novelist Maggie O'Farrell: a portrait of an Irish family in crisis in the legendary heatwave of 1976.
The Distance Between Us is a love story about two people who have never me. The précis on the inside .
Don't tell me, I'll get it in a minute" I mumbled. If any writer could ignite passion between two characters oblivious to each other, Maggie O'Farrell would surely be the one. She's already written a glittering love story about the dead in After You'd Gone, so remote-control devotion should be a doddle. The précis is misleading I'm afraid.
Gripping, insightful and deft, Maggie O'Farrell's third novel is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives.
by O'Farrell, Maggie. Author: Maggie O'Farrell. ISBN13: 9780755302666 ISBN10: 0755302664 Condition: Standard. Author: Maggie Ofarrell.