Reading the title of Claire Messud’s latest novel, anyone of a literary turn of mind will immediately think of the madwoman in the attic, the 19th century’s best-known “woman upstairs.”
Schlagwort-Archive: Liesl Schillinger
Rezension: William Boyd: “Waiting for Sunrise”
“Waiting for Sunrise” is a tantalizing, fast-paced spy novel by the prolific William Boyd. And yet, seductive as it is, the book is no bodice-ripper. It’s a brainteaser, charged with uncertainty and danger, electric with restraint.
Rezension: P. D. James: »Death Comes To Pemberley«
Aspiring writers take heart: one of the most beloved novels of all time was rejected when it was fluttered in front of publishers in 1797 — or so the historical record suggests. Called »First Impressions,« it was written by a country girlt.