The Seven Sisters - Rilegato

Drabble, Margaret

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ISBN 10: 0771029047 ISBN 13: 9780771029042

Casa editrice: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 2002

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When Candida Wilton arrives alone in London, recently betrayed, divorced, and rejected, she wonders what more can happen, at her age, to change her life. And yet, as she climbs the dingy communal staircase with her suitcases, she feels both nervous and exhilarated. Candida confides the details of her progress to a diary that slowly takes on a strong persona of its own, as it often scathingly comments on the trappings of modern life, and uncovers the layers of her past and present life. And when Candida receives a sudden windfall, she takes a group of six friends, women who in one way or another find themselves straddling generations, on a trip she has long dreamed of to Tunis, Naples, and Pompeii, with surprising results. Lively, beautifully rendered, rich in literary allusions and psychological insight, The Seven Sisters is a splendid, broadly appealing novel about starting over.

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“Luminous.... An uncanny literary intelligence informs the entire novel, erasing the line between stories and life.... Drabble is a dazzling novelist, entertaining and enormously popular.... She is also an important writer.”
–Montreal Gazette

“Drabble creates a subversively witty novel that rivals works by Anita Brookner, Margaret Atwood, and Penelope Lively.”
–Booklist (U.S.)

“Engaging the emotions and the intellect simultaneously and possessed of a rare technical ease, The Seven Sisters is an unusually satisfying novel.”
–New York Times Book Review

“As meticulous as Jane Austen, and as deadly as Evelyn Waugh.”
–Los Angeles Times

“A little masterpiece.”
–Edmonton Journal

“Drabble’s fiction has achieved a panoramic vision of contemporary life.”
–Chicago Tribune

“Reading Margaret Drabble’s novels has become something of a rite of passage. Sharply observed, exquisitely companionable tales of women of a certain age and class, educated, egocentric, strong, unlucky in love.”
–Washington Post

“A raw and visceral book.... Drabble paints a clear and vivid picture of life in that nebulous time between middle and old age, where the ancient parents languish in their care homes and the grown children lead distant lives of their own.”
–Globe and Mail

“Drabble’s great talent has always lain in her ferocious eye for detail, and this book is no exception.”
–New York Times

“This book fairly bounces. Its zest derives in large part from the perfectly sustained tone, which expresses humor without poking fun, and deep regret without sentimentality.”
–Atlantic Monthly

“A master of quirky, richly drawn characters, Drabble is attuned to people on the brink of unexpected change.”
–Book Magazine (U.S.)

L'autore:

Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield, England, in 1939, and studied English at Cambridge University. Her novels include The Radiant Way, A Natural Curiosity, The Gates of Ivory, The Witch of Exmoor, The Peppered Moth, and, most recently, The Seven Sisters. Among her non-fiction works are Arnold Bennett: A Biography, A Writer's Britain, and Angus Wilson: A Biography. She is also the editor of The Oxford Companion to English Literature.

Margaret Drabble has three children and is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd. She lives in London, England.
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