Nelly's Version (British Literature) - Softcover

Eva Figes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564783138 ISBN 13: 9781564783134

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2003

Synopsis

In acclaimed author Eva Figes' inventive reshaping of the pop psychological thriller, her fifth novel opens as Nelly Dean, a middle-aged woman suffering from amnesia, checks into a small-town hotel with a suitcase full of cash and no idea where it - or she - came from. Distrustful of everyone from the waiter who serves her lunch to a store clerk who claims to know her from grade school, Nelly fears she is part of a conspiracy, although she is strangely indifferent to the clues that might explain her puzzling circumstances. Part dark comedy, part mystery novel, Nelly's Version offers an unsettling journey into the mind of a witty, intelligent woman stuck in a pastless present.

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Review:

"A combination of black humor with the tension of a thriller make Nelly's Version compulsive reading."--Evening Standard

About the Author:

Eva Figes was an English author. Figes wrote novels, literary criticism, studies of feminism, and vivid memoirs relating to her Berlin childhood and later experiences as a Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1564783138
• ISBN 13: 9781564783134
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 218