The Elected Member (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
224
Utgivningsdatum
1988-01-01
Upplaga
New ed
Utmärkelser
Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1970
Förlag
Abacus
Medarbetare
Bailey, Paul (introd.)
Dimensioner
200 x 125 x 15 mm
Vikt
120 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780349130224

The Elected Member

av Bernice Rubens
Häftad,  Engelska, 1988-01-01
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Norman is the clever one of a close-knit Jewish family in the East End of London. Infant prodigy; brilliant barrister; the apple of his parents' eyes... until at forty-one he becomes a drug addict, confined to his bedroom, at the mercy of his hallucinations and paranoia. For Norman, his committal to a mental hospital represents the ultimate act of betrayal. For Rbbi Zweck, Norman's father, his son's deterioration is a bitter reminder of his own guilt and failure. Only Bella, the unmarried sister, still in her childhood white ankle socks, can reach across the abyss of pain to bring father and son the elusive peace which they both desperately crave.
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She has a large compassion, and an intelligence which makes her compulsively readable. * NEW STATESMAN * Splendidly sane, compassionate and often grotesquely funny. * DAILY TELEGRAPH * The writing sparkles and flickers and blazes. * JEWISH CHRONICLE * The novel moves from intense emotion to humour and pathos to the frightening realisation that those who are surrounded by the insane quickly become insane themselves. Read it. * DARTS *

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Bernice Rubens was born is Wales and worked as both a writer and a film maker. She is the winner of the Booker Prize for The Elected Member, and was shortlisted for the same prize for a subsequent novel: A Five Year Sentence. She died in 2004.

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