*''Vintage bittersweet Bainbridge'' MAIL ON SUNDAY *''Imagine
Priestley''s THE GOOD COMPANIONS as written by Gogol and you will
have some idea of the mixture of waggish humour and sordid pathos
in Bainbridge''s novel'' SUNDAY TIMES *''A subtle schizophrenic
insight into adult relationships . Bainbridge''s understated prose
and obsessive eye for the smallest and most telling of details have
never been better employed'' TIME OUT
內容簡介:
It is 1950 and the Liverpool reporatory theatre company is
rehearsing its Christmas production of Peter Pan, a story of
childhood innocence and loss. Stella has been taken on as assistant
stage manager and quickly becomes obsessed with Meredith, the
dissolute director. But it is only when the celebrated O''Hara
arrives to take the lead, that a different drama unfolds. In it, he
and Stella are bound together in a past that neither dares to
interpret.
關於作者:
Beryl Bainbridge is one of the greatest living novelists.
Author of 17 novels, 2 travel books 5 plays for stage
tv, she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize 5 times has
won many literary awards including the Whitbread Prize the
Author of the Year Award at the British Book Awards.