Small island, Levy, Andrea

Автор: Levy Andrea
Название: Long Song
ISBN: 0755359429 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780755359424
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Описание: `Small Island is a hard act to follow, but in her new book Levy has moved into top gear` - Observer

Автор: Levy, Andrea
Название: Fruit of the lemon
ISBN: 0747261148 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780747261148
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Описание: An unique novel full of humour, wit and passion.

Автор: Levy Andrea
Название: Small Island
ISBN: 0312429525 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312429522
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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Описание: "Small Island" is an international bestseller. It won the Orange Prize for Fiction, The Orange Prize for Fiction: Best of the Best, The Whitbread Novel Award, The Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. It has now been adapted for the screen as a coproduction of the BBC and Masterpiece/WGBH Boston.
Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war expecting to be received as a hero, but finds his status as a black man in Britain to be second class. His white landlady, Queenie, raised as a farmer's daughter, befriends Gilbert, and later Hortense, with innocence and courage, until the unexpected arrival of her husband, Bernard, who returns from combat with issues of his own to resolve. Told in these four voices, "Small Island "is a courageous novel of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers---in short, an encapsulation of that most American of experiences: the immigrant's life.

Born in 1956 to Jamaican parents, Andrea Levy is the author of three previous novels and has received a British Arts Council Writers Award in addition to the Orange Prize and Whitbread distinctions. She lives works in London.
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction
Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' PrizeA "Publishers Weekly" Top 10 Novel of the YearWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from war expecting to be received as a hero, but finds his status as a black man in Britain to be second class. His white landlady, Queenie, raised as a farmer's daughter, befriends Gilbert, and later Hortense, with innocence and courage, until the unexpected arrival of her husband, Bernard, who returns from combat with issues of his own to resolve.
Told in these four voices, "Small Island" is a courageous novel of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossing taken and passage lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers--in short, an encapsulation of that most American of experiences: the immigrant's life. Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction
Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize
"A perfectly crafted tale of crossed lives and oceans. Big themes--abandonment, survival, racial awareness, forgiveness--are not always weighty enough to chart a smooth course over constant shifts in voice, time, and place. Levy's outstanding talent is her ability to control these upheavals. From Kingston to London to Calcutta, Levy deftly directs her story with twin reins of violence and humor."--"San Francisco Chronicle" "Levy's greatest achievement in "Small Island" is to convey how English racism was all the more heartbreaking for its colonial victims because it involved the crushing of their ideals . . . "Small Island" is too thoughtful a novel to promise its characters a happy ending, but it is generous enough to offer them hope."--Fatema Ahmed, "The New York Times Book Review"
"A perfectly crafted tale of crossed lives and oceans. Big themes--abandonment, survival, racial awareness, forgiveness--are not always weighty enough to chart a smooth course over constant shifts in voice, time, and place. Levy's outstanding talent is her ability to control these upheavals. From Kingston to London to Calcutta, Levy deftly directs her story with twin reins of violence and humor."--"San Francisco Chronicle"
"In the shabby remnants of post-blitz London, three near-strangers find themselves in a single house. Queenie Bligh is a spirited Yorkshirewoman waitin

Автор: Levy, Andrea
Название: Small island
ISBN: 075530750X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780755307500
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Описание: The multi-award-winning, million copy bestseller... `the literary equivalent of a switch-back ride` - Sunday Times

Автор: Levy Andrea
Название: Six Stories and an Essay
ISBN: 1472222695 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472222695
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Описание: A superb collection of writing from multi-award-winning, million-copy bestseller Andrea Levy.

Автор: Levy, Andrea
Название: Never Far From Nowhere
ISBN: 0747252130 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780747252139
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Описание: A passionate and perceptive story full of the pain and the humour of growing up

Автор: Levy, Andrea
Название: Long song
ISBN: 1472268687 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472268686
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Описание: `Small Island is a hard act to follow, but in her new book Levy has moved into top gear` - Observer

Автор: Levy, Andrea,
Название: Fruit of the lemon /
ISBN: 031242664X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312426644
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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From Andrea Levy, author of Small Island and winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year and the Best of the Best Orange Prize, comes a story of one woman and two islands.

Faith Jackson knows little about her parents' lives before they moved to England. Happy to be starting her first job in the costume department at BBC television, and to be sharing a house with friends, Faith is full of hope and expectation. But when her parents announce that they are moving home to Jamaica, Faith's fragile sense of her identity is threatened. Angry and perplexed as to why her parents would move to a country they so rarely mention, Faith becomes increasingly aware of the covert and public racism of her daily life, at home and at work.

At her parents' suggestion, in the hope it will help her to understand where she comes from, Faith goes to Jamaica for the first time. There she meets her Aunt Coral, whose storytelling provides Faith with ancestors, whose lives reach from Cuba and Panama to Harlem and Scotland. Branch by branch, story by story, Faith scales the family tree, and discovers her own vibrant heritage, which is far richer and wilder than she could have imagined.

Fruit of the Lemon spans countries and centuries, exploring questions of race and identity with humor and a freshness, and confirms Andrea Levy as one of our most exciting contemporary novelists.

Автор: Jeannette Baxter, David James
Название: Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
ISBN: 1441160450 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441160454
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Andrea Levy has emerged as one of the most significant and popular voices in contemporary black British writing both in the UK and abroad. Drawing on a familial history of emigration, her critically-acclaimed novels - including the multiple award-winning Small Island - attempt to bring a variety of voices to the representation of black experience in post-war Britain. This book is the first of its kind to be devoted to Levy’s work. Combining historical, theoretical and textual perspectives, the volume hosts a wide range of current critical approaches to Levy’s fiction. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars, the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island, while also shedding fresh light on Levy’s critically neglected early works. The book also includes a new interview with Levy herself, a timeline of her life, chapter summaries, as well as guides to further reading and online resources, making this an essential companion to the writings of one of the most exciting voices in contemporary fiction.

Автор: Jeannette Baxter, David James
Название: Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
ISBN: 1441113606 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441113603
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Andrea Levy has emerged as one of the most significant and popular voices in contemporary black British writing both in the UK and abroad. Drawing on a familial history of emigration, her critically-acclaimed novels - including the multiple award-winning Small Island - attempt to bring a variety of voices to the representation of black experience in post-war Britain. This book is the first of its kind to be devoted to Levy’s work. Combining historical, theoretical and textual perspectives, the volume hosts a wide range of current critical approaches to Levy’s fiction. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars, the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island, while also shedding fresh light on Levy’s critically neglected early works. The book also includes a new interview with Levy herself, a timeline of her life, chapter summaries, as well as guides to further reading and online resources, making this an essential companion to the writings of one of the most exciting voices in contemporary fiction.