The Angel's Cut

Name: The Angel's Cut
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Elizabeth Knox
ISBN: 9780099540045

Elizabeth Knox

11/06/2009
Vintage

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The Angel's Cut par Elizabeth Knox

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur Hollywood, 1929. While Conrad Cole is working late on elaborate plans for his aeroplanes and his films, a mysterious stranger appears at his door. Xas soon finds himself caught up in the glamorous and treacherous world of movie-making and entangled with both Cole and a young woman who owes her life to the eccentric director. Both of them are drawn to Xas without knowing his secret - that under his shirt he hides the remnants of great snowy wings that set him apart from humankind, and that he is destined to wander the earth forever, always hearing the beating of feathers behind him, threatening him that his dark brother has found him again. Revue de presse "Knox is a writer with a gift for describing the colour of the present moment...she lets her language breathe, lets it speak in revelations rather than explanations" ( Times Literary Supplement) "Her words have the power to dazzle" ( Independent) "Knox's evocation of thirties California is dreamy, and her characters interestingly warped" (Emma Hagestadt Independent) Biographie de l'auteur Elizabeth Knox is the author of five books, but The Vintner's Luck was the first to be published outside her native New Zealand. It met great critical and popular success, was longlisted for the Orange Prize and turned into a film in 2009. She is married and lives with her family in Wellington