The Peppered Moth
From England's highly acclaimed author comes a new novel-a masterfully crafted portrait of three generations,a family strikingly similar to her own.Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield, England, in 1939 and read English at Cambridge University. Her novels include The Gates of Ivory, The Ice...
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From England's highly acclaimed author comes a new novel-a masterfully crafted portrait of three generations,a family strikingly similar to her own.Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield, England, in 1939 and read English at Cambridge University. Her novels include The Gates of Ivory, The Ice Age, The Realms of Gold, A Summer Bird Cage, and The Waterfall. She is also the editor of The Oxford Companion to English Literature. She has three children and is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780771028816 (0771028814)
Publish date: June 4th 2002
Publisher: Emblem Editions
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
There's a beautiful book waiting to emerge, and perhaps the author is the one to make it happen. But as she repeatedly violates the show-don't-tell rule, I just don't trust her to do it. She ruined some remarkable touching scenes by explaining their meaning at the end of the passages.
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