An Awfully Big Adventure (ISIS Large Print S.) - Hardcover

Bainbridge, Beryl

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1856952649 ISBN 13: 9781856952644

Publisher: ISIS Large Print Books, Oxford, 1996

Synopsis

It is 1950 and the Liverpool reporatory theatre company is rehearsing its Christmas production of Peter Pan, a story of childhood innocence and loss. Stella has been taken on as assistant stage manager and quickly becomes obsessed with Meredith, the dissolute director. But it is only when the celebrated O'Hara arrives to take the lead, that a different drama unfolds. In it, he and Stella are bound together in a past that neither dares to interpret.

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Review:

Vintage bittersweet Bainbridge (MAIL ON SUNDAY)

Imagine Priestley's THE GOOD COMPANIONS as written by Gogol and you will have some idea of the mixture of waggish humour and sordid pathos in Bainbridge's novel (SUNDAY TIMES)

A subtle schizophrenic insight into adult relationships ... Bainbridge's understated prose and obsessive eye for the smallest and most telling of details have never been better employed (TIME OUT)

Book Description:

*'This is one of Bainbridge's best books. The close observation and hilarity are underlain by a sense of tragedy as deep as any in fiction' THE TIMES

About this edition

• Publisher: ISIS Large Print Books, Oxford
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1856952649
• ISBN 13: 9781856952644
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 197