Fiona Capp
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A propos de l'auteur
Fiona Capp, novelist and author of the acclaimed memoir That Oceanic Feeling, was seventeen years old when she first met Judith Wright. Everything that followed from his encounter led her, thirty years later, on a journey through the landscapes that made Wright one of Australia's greatest poets and afficher plus environmental visionaries. afficher moins
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Œuvres de Fiona Capp
My Blood's Country: A Journey Through the Landscape that Inspired Judith Wright's Poetry (2010) 14 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1963
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Australia
- Lieu de naissance
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Études
- La Trobe University (MA)
- Professions
- teacher
tutor
novelist
researcher
writer - Agent
- Jenny Darling and Associates
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 8
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 110
- Popularité
- #176,729
- Évaluation
- 3.3
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 30
- Langues
- 3
The book alternates between Esther's experiences in Australia in the wake of David's political career and her September idyll on Gotland, which has become the one place she can hold onto to help stave off her rising fears about the impact on their lives of David's success. Capp varies her style of writing as the scene changes, with the Gotland chapters coming across as moody and pastoral, whereas the Australian chapters strike the reader as gritty, urban and rushed.
This is not a book I expected to like, but it is very good and very well-written. I found myself wanting Esther to find peace but Capp manages to preserve empathy for all of her main characters, even David, who could so easily have been made into the villain of the piece. A very readable, absorbing and gratifying book… (plus d'informations)