Surfacing /
Part detective novel, part psychological thriller,Surfacingis the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec.Setting out with her lover and another young couple, she soon finds herself captivated by the isolated setting, where a ma...
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| Natura: | Libro |
| Lingua: | English |
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London :
Virago,
1979.
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| Serie: | Virago modern classics ;
no. 8 |
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| Riassunto: | Part detective novel, part psychological thriller,Surfacingis the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec.Setting out with her lover and another young couple, she soon finds herself captivated by the isolated setting, where a marriage begins to fall apart, violence and death lurk just beneath the surface, and sex becomes a catalyst for conflict and dangerous choices.Surfacingis a work permeated with an aura of suspense, complex with layered meanings, and written in brilliant, diamond-sharp prose.Here is a rich mine of ideas from an extraordinary writer about contemporary life and nature, families and marriage, and about women fragmented...and becoming whole. |
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| Descrizione del documento: | "First published in Great Britain 1973." |
| Descrizione fisica: | [4], 192 p. ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0860680649 |