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Francis Spufford - Golden Hill, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Golden Hill

Av Francis Spufford

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Beskrivning
'Best book of the century.' Richard Osman'Just wonderful.' Jan Morris'A marvel.' Zadie Smith 'Every bit as superb as everyone says.' Sarah PerryWinner of the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 25 NOVELS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYOVER 100k COPIES SOLD New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One rainy evening, a charming and handsome young stranger fresh off the boat from England pitches up to a counting house on Golden Hill Street, with a suspicious yet compelling proposition -- he has an order for a thousand pounds in his pocket that he wishes to cash. But can he be trusted? This is New York in its infancy, a place where a young man with a fast tongue can invent himself afresh, fall in love, and find a world of trouble . . .
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2016-09-29
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
  • Vikt: 278 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Faber & Faber
  • Antal sidor: 352
  • Förlag: Faber & Faber
  • ISBN: 9780571225200
  • Utmärkelser: Winner of COSTA Best First Novel Award 2016 (UK)
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1 recensioner, genomsnitt 1/5

  1. 1/5 Tomas H

    This book has received a number of awards, and is marketed as a masterpiece of historical fiction. Hard to understand why.
    The writer is obviously experienced in writing non-fiction and has reportedly studied the historical context. That doesn't make him a novellist...
    The language is mannered and contrived, and the text is almost impossible to read.
    The characters are shallow and improbable.
    The story is unbelievably long-winded and so full of endless, useless details, it's a pain to try to read through. The writer is trying too hard to be clever and unnecessarily takes us along a number of pointless routes. There are long passages that don't have any bearing at all to the story or to the historical interest - the text simply fills out page after page to no purpose.
    I regret that I didn't follow my initial instinct to throw away this book after the first 20 pages.

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