Kate Pullinger
Auteur de The Mistress of Nothing
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Courtesy of Serpent's Tail Press
Séries
Œuvres de Kate Pullinger
Border Lines 2 exemplaires
Inanimate Alice 2 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Pullinger, Kate
- Date de naissance
- 1961
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Canada
UK - Lieu de naissance
- Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
- Lieux de résidence
- Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada (birth)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
London, England, UK (1982-) - Études
- McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Professions
- novelist
- Organisations
- De Montfort University
- Agent
- Sayle Literary Agency
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Critiques
Mistress Of Nothing par Kate Pullinger
Adversity
Was I meant to applaud Alisdair Stewart doing….what he did? Because I did. A story with a completely unsympathetic female lead character, who, one feels, would benefit from a spell in a psychiatric unit. One for the charity shop.
After having just finished a bad novel,with an absolutely terrible ending, I began reading Landing Gear and was sucked into, and delighted by it right from the very first page. It begins with a man falling from an airplane, landing on top of a woman's car, and then calmly asking the woman "Am I dead" What a way to start a novel ! As the story progresses we learn that Harriet is keeping a secret from her family. But it's not till late in the novel that we learn that Harriet also keeping a secret from the reader as well. When all the details are finally revealed that amazing beginning becomes even more amazing.
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This is a great Canadian story and an exploration of how childhood trauma can have devastating long term consequences. Starting in the 1930's when Art is 7 years old growing up in the Okanagan valley, the story continues through the war and his life in the BC logging industry till he is found unconscious and homeless in 1995 on the streets of Vancouver. A real "There but for fortune" story.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 29
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 1,342
- Popularité
- #19,173
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 67
- ISBN
- 123
- Langues
- 13