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Winter Hardback - 2014

by Nicholson, Christopher

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London, Fourth Estate Limited (an imprint of Harper Collins), 2014. Hard Cover Condition: Near Fine - small remainder mark on bottom edge. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 140 x 220 mm, 247 pages. From the author of the Costa Best Novel-shortlisted The Elephant Keeper, a poignant imagining of Thomas Hardys relationship with his last muse. In the winter of 1924 the most celebrated English writer of the day, 84-year-old Thomas Hardy, was living at his Dorset home of Max Gate with his second wife, Florence. Aged 45 but in poor health, Florence came to suspect that Hardy was in the grip of a romantic infatuation. The woman in question was a beautiful local actress, 27-year-old Gertrude Bugler, who was playing Tess in the first dramatic adaptation of Hardys most famous novel, Tess of the dUrbervilles. Inspired by these events, Winter is a brilliantly realised portrait of an old man and his imaginative life; the life that has brought him fame and wealth, but that condemns him to living lives he cant hope to lead, and reliving those he thought he once led. It is also, though, about the women who now surround him: the middle-aged, childless woman who thought she would find happiness as his handmaiden; and the young actress, with her youthful ambitions and desires, who came between them. Elegant While Nicholsons plot adds almost nothing to the historical facts, he lends the story depth by telling it from three different points of view A memorable portrait of a failed marriage. Novel of the Week, Mail on Sunday A gently elegiac tone permeates the novel, with its ravishing, appropriately Hardyesque sense of the intimate connection between landscape and emotion The conclusion is a touching celebration of life over art Telegraph Devotees of Thomas Hardy should find much to treasure in Nicholsons third novel Nicholson emulates Hardys elegant style with remarkable acuity A wonderfully insightful and occasionally humorous portrait of marital unhappiness and the dynamics of desire and longing Sunday Times A wonderful novel, moving, gripping and illuminating. David Lodge Insightful Sunday Times Must Reads A passionate portrayal of love in its many guises Country Life Magazine

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  • Title Winter
  • Author Nicholson, Christopher
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition. 8
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 256
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Fourth Estate, London
  • Publication date 2014
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 37
  • ISBN 9780007516070
  • Quantity available 1
  • Bookseller catalogues Literature

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