Virginia Woolf in Manhattan [electronic resource]
Gee, Maggie2015
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Bestselling author Angela Lamb is going through a mid-life crisis. She dumps her irrepressible daughter Gerda at boarding school and flies to New York to pursue her passion for Woolf, whose manuscripts are held in a private collection. When a bedraggled Virginia Woolf herself materialises among the bookshelves and is promptly evicted, Angela, stunned, rushes after her on to the streets of Manhattan. Soon Angela is chaperoning her troublesome heroine as the latter tries to understand the internet and scams bookshops with 'rare signed editions'. Then Virginia insists on flying with Angela to Istanbul, finds a Turkish admirer and steals the show at an International Conference on – Virginia Woolf. Virginia Woolf in Manhattan is a witty and profound novel about the miraculous possibilities of a second chance at life. 'Audacious, playful and dazzlingly written' The Herald 'Wickedly funny ... contains lines that sparkle' Sunday Telegraph 'Wickedly smart, funny and fearless, plus that rarest of all things, genuinely surprising' Patrick Ness 'This giddily playful novel is a cunning what if ... A gloriously funny, fleet-footed novel.' Metro (Best Summer Reads) 'A witty book ... It's got everything in a novel that I really like' Jacqueline Wilson's Six Best Books, Express
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Virginia Woolf in Manhattan [electronic resource] / Maggie Gee
Author:
Gee, Maggie, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Saqi, 2015
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Maggie Gee is the author of twelve critically acclaimed novels, including The White Family (shortlisted for the Orange and IMPAC prizes), and a memoir, My Animal Life. She is a Fellow and Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature, and Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Her work has been translated into fourteen languages. Maggie Gee was awarded an OBE in 2012 for services to literature.
ISBN:
9781846591891
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English
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3744368
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