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Cuddy

Winner of the 2023 Goldsmiths Prize
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
464 Seiten
Englisch
Bloomsbury Tradeerschienen am01.02.2024
**Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2023****Winner of the Winston Graham Historical Prize****Shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize****Chosen as a book of the year 2023 by The Times, Guardian, Telegraph and New Statesman** An epic the north has long deserved´ FINANCIAL TIMES A sensational piece of storytelling ... A singular and significant achievement´ GUARDIAN Marvellous, artful, enchanted´ DAILY TELEGRAPH'Cements Myers´s standing as one of our finest, and most deftly imaginative, writers' I NEWSThe triumphant new novel from the Walter Scott Prize-winning author of The Gallows Pole and The OffingCuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patron saint of the North of England.Incorporating poetry, prose, play, diary and real historical accounts to create a novel like no other, Cuddy straddles historical eras - from the first Christian-slaying Viking invaders of the holy island of Lindisfarne in the 8th century to a contemporary England defined by class and austerity.Along the way we meet brewers and masons, archers and academics, monks and labourers, their visionary voices and stories echoing through their ancestors and down the ages.And all the while at the centre sits Durham Cathedral and the lives of those who live and work around this place of pilgrimage - their dreams, desires, connections and communities.mehr
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Klappentext**Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2023****Winner of the Winston Graham Historical Prize****Shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize****Chosen as a book of the year 2023 by The Times, Guardian, Telegraph and New Statesman** An epic the north has long deserved´ FINANCIAL TIMES A sensational piece of storytelling ... A singular and significant achievement´ GUARDIAN Marvellous, artful, enchanted´ DAILY TELEGRAPH'Cements Myers´s standing as one of our finest, and most deftly imaginative, writers' I NEWSThe triumphant new novel from the Walter Scott Prize-winning author of The Gallows Pole and The OffingCuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patron saint of the North of England.Incorporating poetry, prose, play, diary and real historical accounts to create a novel like no other, Cuddy straddles historical eras - from the first Christian-slaying Viking invaders of the holy island of Lindisfarne in the 8th century to a contemporary England defined by class and austerity.Along the way we meet brewers and masons, archers and academics, monks and labourers, their visionary voices and stories echoing through their ancestors and down the ages.And all the while at the centre sits Durham Cathedral and the lives of those who live and work around this place of pilgrimage - their dreams, desires, connections and communities.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-5266-3146-6
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum01.02.2024
Seiten464 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht322 g
Artikel-Nr.60504778
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GenreRomane Taschenbuch

Inhalt/Kritik

Kritik
It's been a while since I've reacted as emotionally to a novel ... An epic the north has long deserved: ambitious, dreamy, earthy, dark, welcoming and not ... There are readers like me who will not just enjoy this book but feel deeply grateful for its existence FINANCIAL TIMESmehr

Autor

Benjamin Myers was born in Durham in 1976. He is the author of ten books, including The Offing, which was an international bestseller and selected for the Radio 2 Book Club; The Gallows Pole, which won the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction and has been adapted as a BBC series by Shane Meadows; Beastings which was awarded the Portico Prize for Literature, and Pig Iron which won the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize. He has also published non-fiction, poetry and crime novels and his journalism has appeared in publications including the Guardian, New Statesman, TLS, Caught by the River and many more. He lives in the Upper Calder Valley, West Yorkshire. benjaminmyerswriter.com / @BenMyers1