Francis Spufford
Auteur de Golden Hill
A propos de l'auteur
Francis Spufford is also the author of I May Be Some Time. He was named Sunday Times (London) Young Writer of the Year and received the 1997 Somerset Maugham and Writers' Guild awards. He lives in London
Œuvres de Francis Spufford
Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense (2012) 394 exemplaires
The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic (2007) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur; Contributeur — 131 exemplaires
The Stone Table 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Le pire voyage au monde : Antarctique 1910-1913 (1922) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 1,902 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1964
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Études
- University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall| BA)
- Professions
- non-fiction writer
- Relations
- Spufford, Margaret (mother)
Spufford, Peter (father) - Organisations
- Goldsmiths, University of London
- Prix et distinctions
- Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
Membres
Discussions
2021 Booker Prize Longlist: Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford à Booker Prize (Août 2021)
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford à Historical Fiction (Février 2017)
Critiques
Listes
Bibliomemoirs (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 15
- Aussi par
- 7
- Membres
- 4,530
- Popularité
- #5,544
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 175
- ISBN
- 115
- Langues
- 11
- Favoris
- 5
A certain Mr. Smith lands in New York fresh from England, and in need of exchanging an order for £1000. Such a phenomenal amount of money makes him the subject of much gossip, and an assured place in society. But all does not run smoothly. Pick pockets, a shrewish woman whom he nevertheless falls for, dissenters, bankers, churchgoers all rollick through the narrative. There are roof-top adventures, river trips, gaols, long mornings in coffee houses. Surprise tumbles in after surprise, though the biggest one of all is kept till last. I'm glad I read it. I repeat. I must read it again.… (plus d'informations)