The Lacuna [electronic resource] : Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
Kingsolver, Barbara2009
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**NOW INCLUDING THE FIRST CHAPTER OF DEMON COPPERHEAD**TWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONFROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR'Lush.' Sunday Times'Superb.' Daily Mail'Elegantly written.' Sunday TelegraphFrom award-winning and internationally bestselling author of Demon Copperhead and Flight Behaviour, The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s America in the shadow of Senator McCarthy.Born in America and raised in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salome. When he starts work in the household of Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo - where the Bolshevik leader, Lev Trotsky, is also being harboured as a political exile - he inadvertently casts his lot with art, communism and revolution. A compulsive diarist, he records and relates his colourful experiences of life with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Trotsky in the midst of the Mexican revolution. A violent upheaval sends him back to America; but political winds continue to throw him between north and south, in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach - the lacuna - between truth and public presumption.
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Author:
Kingsolver, Barbara, authorCloud
Imprint:
[S.l.] : Faber & Faber, 2009.
Collation:
1 online resource688 p.
Notes:
Electronic book.Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] Faber & Faber 2009 Available via World Wide Web.
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Format: Adobe EPUBRequires: cloudLibrary (file size: 567.0 KB)
ISBN:
9780571252657
Language:
English
BRN:
3151312