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Synopsis
"I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy." Mary's fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate, emotional yet unsentimental novel. As daring as Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Sacred Country inspires us to reconsider the essence of gender, and proposes new insights in the unraveling of that timeless malady known as the human condition. As Mary's mother, Estelle, observes, "There are no whole truths, just as there is no heart of the onion. There are only the dreams of the individual mind." Sweeping us through three decades, from the repressive English countryside of the fifties to the swinging London of the sixties to the rhinestone tackiness of seventies America, Rose Tremain unmasks the "sacred country" within us all.
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The New Yorker A beautiful, knowing novel about isolation and loneliness.
The Wall Street Journal An extraordinary novel....spare, pointed [and] extremely moving.
The Village Voice Literary Supplement Sacred Country is...about the unexpected and its pleasures, the thrill of rounding a corner and finding something is not at all what you thought, even when that something is yourself...brilliant.
The New York Times Book Review A book that we give to our friends and are glad to have read...Tremain gives us a precisely imagined landscape and...characters that we come to care deeply about.
The Boston Sunday Globe A stunning achievement.
The London Times Evening Standard Sacred Country, by even the most exacting standards, is an unqualified success.
The Washington Post The writing in this novel is a sheer delight....skilled, intelligent storytelling at its best.
The Literary Review (London) There is no one like Tremain as far as the eye can see....Her book is one to admire and enjoy. It is funny, absorbing, and quite original. I've read nothing to touch it this year.
The Boston Sunday Globe Rose Tremain's purpose is to probe and illumine the mystery of identity with particular poignancy and rare compassion....intricate and rewarding fiction.
Los Angeles Times Mary's story is superficially bizarre, yet Tremain makes her not just real but moving and blithe....There is a hint of the magical or providential at work.
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25 years on from its first publication this classic novel from the Orange prize-winning author of The Road Home and Restoration is reissued with a bold new look
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- PublisherWashington Square Press
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0671886096
- ISBN 13 9780671886097
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages336
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