Name: Briefly, a Delicious Life: A Novel
Price: 17.51 EUR
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Author: Nell Stevens
ISBN: 9781982190958

portada Briefly, a Delicious Life: A Novel

Type

Physical Book

Author

Nell Stevens

Publisher

Scribner

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.3 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.24 kg.

ISBN13

9781982190958

Synopsis "Briefly, a Delicious Life: A Novel "

*A Cosmopolitan Best Book of Summer * One of BuzzFeed's Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books* An "exquisite...too lovely to bear" (The New York Times Book Review) debut novel from an award-winning writer: a playful and daring tale about a teenage ghost who falls in love with the writer George Sands. In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there: a spirited, funny, righteous ghost, she's been hanging around the monastery since her accidental death, spying on the monks and the townspeople and keeping track of her descendants. Blanca is enchanted the moment she sees George, and the magical novel unfolds as a story of deeply felt, unrequited longing--a teenage ghost pining for a woman who can't see her and doesn't know she exists. As George and Chopin, who wear their unconventionality, in George's case, literally on their sleeves, find themselves in deepening trouble with the provincial, 19th-century villagers, Blanca watches helplessly and reflects on the circumstances of her own death (which involved an ill-advised love affair with a monk-in-training). Charming, original, and emotionally moving, this "deeply wild debut follows the unconventional love triangle" (Cosmopolitan) between George, Chopin, and Blanca--a gorgeous and surprising exploration of artistry, desire, and life after death.

Nell Stevens

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Nell Stevens escribe memorias y ficción. Es autora de Bleaker House y Mrs Gaskell & Me (Reino Unido) / The Victorian & the Romantic (EE. UU./Canadá), libros que ganaron el Premio Somerset Maugham en 2019. Fue preseleccionada para el Premio Nacional de Relato Corto de la BBC en 2018. Sus escritos se publican en The New York Times, Vogue, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, Granta y otras publicaciones. Nell es profesora adjunta de Escritura Creativa en la Universidad de Warwick.

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