Winter
Christopher Nicholson
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Add to basket: En el invierno de 1924, Thomas Hardy, el escritor inglés más célebre del momento, vive en su casa de Dorset con su segunda esposa, Florence. Florence, de 45 años y delicada de salud, sospecha que Hardy está obsesionado con una joven actriz local, Gertrude Bugler, que interpreta a Tess en la primera adaptación teatral de su novela más famosa, 'Tess de los d'Urbervilles'. Inspirada en estos hechos, 'Winter' es un retrato brillante de un anciano y su vida imaginativa, la que le ha traído fama y riqueza, pero que le condena a vivir vidas que no puede llevar y a revivir las que creía haber vivido. También trata de las mujeres que le rodean: la mujer de mediana edad y sin hijos que pensó que encontraría la felicidad como su doncella, y la joven actriz, con sus ambiciones y deseos juveniles, que se interpuso entre ellas. EAN: 9780007516087 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: Winter Autor: Christopher Nicholson Editorial: Fourth Estate Idioma: en Páginas: 256 Formato: tapa blanda.
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From the author of the Costa Best Novel-shortlisted ‘The Elephant Keeper’, a poignant imagining of Thomas Hardy’s relationship with his last muse.
In the winter of 1924 the most celebrated English writer of the day, 84-year-old Thomas Hardy, was living at his Dorset home of Max Gate with his second wife, Florence. Aged 45 but in poor health, Florence came to suspect that Hardy was in the grip of a romantic infatuation. The woman in question was a beautiful local actress, 27-year-old Gertrude Bugler, who was playing Tess in the first dramatic adaptation of Hardy’s most famous novel, ‘Tess of the d’Urbervilles’.
Inspired by these events, ‘Winter’ is a brilliantly realised portrait of an old man and his imaginative life; the life that has brought him fame and wealth, but that condemns him to living lives he can’t hope to lead, and reliving those he thought he once led. It is also, though, about the women who now surround him: the middle-aged, childless woman who thought she would find happiness as his handmaiden; and the young actress, with her youthful ambitions and desires, who came between them.
Christopher Nicholson read English at Cambridge University. He has been a community development worker in Cornwall, and a radio scriptwriter and producer in London. He lives in Dorset. ‘The Elephant Keeper’ is his second novel.
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