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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Drabble, Margaret (1939-....)
Titre(s) : The dark flood rises [Texte imprimé] / Margaret Drabble
Édition : First American edition
Publication : New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017
Description matérielle : 327 pages ; 24 cm
Note(s) : "A magnificently mordant reckoning with mortality by the great British novelist.
Francesca Stubbs has a very full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the
elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives restlessly round England, which
is 'her last love'. She wants to 'see it all before she dies'. Amid the professional
conferences she attends, she fits in visits to old friends, brings home-cooked dinners
to her ex-husband, texts her son, who is grieving over the sudden death of his girlfriend,
and drops in on her daughter, a quirky young woman who lives in a floodplain in the
West Country. The space between vitality and mortality suddenly seems narrow, but
Fran is not ready to settle yet, with a 'cat upon her knee'. She still prizes her
'frisson of autonomy', her belief in herself as a dynamic individual doing meaningful
work in the world. This dark and glittering novel moves back and forth between an
interconnected group of family and friends in England and a seemingly idyllic expat
community in the Canary Islands. It is set against a backdrop of rising flood tides
in Britain and the seismic fragility of the Canaries, where we also observe the flow
of immigrants from an increasingly war-torn Middle East. With Margaret Drabble's characteristic
wit and deceptively simple prose, The Dark Flood Rises enthralls, entertains, and
asks existential questions in equal measure. Of course, there is undeniable truth
in Francesca's insight: 'Old age, it's a fucking disaster!'"
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780374134952. - ISBN 0374134952. - ISBN 9780374715762 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb453951450
Notice n° :
FRBNF45395145
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