Mrs Engels
Mrs Engels Gavin McCrea pdf español - Cherchez-vous des Mrs Engels. Savez-vous, ce livre est écrit par Gavin McCrea. Le livre a pages 398. Mrs Engels est publié par Scribe. Le livre est sorti sur 2015-05-01. Vous pouvez lire le Mrs Engels en ligne avec des étapes faciles. Mais si vous voulez le sauvegarder sur votre ordinateur, vous pouvez télécharger maintenant Mrs Engels.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WALKER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD
Love is a bygone idea, centuries-worn. There are things we can go without, and love is among them; bread and a warm hearth are not.
In September 1870 a train leaves Manchester bound for London. On board is Lizzie Burns, a poor worker from the Irish slums, who is embarking on the journey that will change her forever. Sitting in the first-class carriage beside her lover, the wealthy mill-owner Frederick Engels, the vision of a life of peace and comfort takes shape before her eyes: finally, at nearly fifty, she is to be the lady of a house and the wife to a man. Perhaps now she can put the difficulties of the past behind her, and be happy?
In Gavin McCrea's stunning debut novel, we follow Lizzie as the promise of an easy existence in the capital slips from her view, and as she gains, in its place, a profound understanding of herself and of the world. While Frederick and his friend Karl Marx try to spur revolution among the working classes, Lizzie is compelled to undertake a revolution of another kind: of the heart and the soul. Haunted by her first love, a revolutionary Irishman; burdened by a sense of duty to right past mistakes; and torn between a desire for independence and the pragmatic need to be taken care of, Lizzie learns, as she says, that 'the world doesn't happen how you think it will. The secret is to soften to it, and to take its blows.'
Wry, astute and often hilarious, Lizzie is as compelling and charismatic a figure as ever walked the streets of Victorian England, or its novels. In giving her renewed life, Gavin McCrea earns his place in the pantheon of great debut novelists.
PRAISE FOR GAVIN MCCREA
‘[M]asterly and original, examining through the eyes of the brave, noisy and clever yet illiterate Lizzie the work and friendship of Marx and Engels and the lives of women.’ The Age
‘Extraordinarily assured … Lizzie is an ever-intriguing, rounded character.’ The Herald Sun
Rang parmi les ventes Amazon: #204243 dans eBooksPublié le: 2015-05-01Sorti le: 2015-05-01Format: Ebook Kindle1 internautes sur 1 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile.Long live Mrs EngelsPar AndreaMrs Engels, which I understood after reading the novel did really exist, is a fantastic character - one that forces the reader to engage in a connection which proves very difficult, at least at the beginning, because of the incredible social and cultural gulf that separates her from us, and yet... and yet, as you proceed through the novel, you can't help loving her, not in spite of, but because of her distance and difference from you. I was admired by McCrea's ability to create such a character, and my admiration only grew after realising the amount of research that such a novel must have required. I loved McCrea's ability to create a language, Mrs Engel's language, and a wisdom, Mrs Engel's wisdom, which you end up missing so much once you finish reading this novel.
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