Книга: Marina Lewycka «We Are All Made of Glue»
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Серия: "-" From bonding to bondage, from B&Q to Belarus, along with seven smelly cats, three useless handymen, two slimy estate agents, social workers, and a bonker lady, this is the story of a very unlikely friendship. Georgie Sinclair's husband has walked out; her sixteen-year-old son is busy surfing born-again websites; and all those overdue articles for Adhesives in the Modern World are getting her down. So when Georgie spots Mrs Shapiro, an eccentric old Jewish emigre neighbour with an eye for a bargain and a fondness for matchmaking, rummaging through her skip in the middle of the night, it's just the distraction she needs. And although they mistrust each other at first - Georgie doesn't like the look of that past-its-sell-by-date fish, while Mrs Shapiro thinks Georgie needs to smarten herself up and grab a new husband - a firm friendship is formed over the reduced-price shelf at the supermarket. Then Mrs Shapiro is admitted to hospital and to Georgie's surprise, she is named as her next of kin. But sorting out Mrs Shapiro's semi-derelict mansion in Highbury, home to seven stinky cats with agendas of their own, is no easy job when the handyman called in to change the locks turns out to be not what he seems and his two assistants,'the Uselesses', are doing more breaking than fixing. And what about the two slimy estate agents (one with a charming taste for bondage) who start competing to trick Mrs Shapiro into selling her rickety old house, or the social worker determined to commit her to a nursing home? As Georgie steps in to help her new friend, she finds herself unravelling a mystery which takes her from Highbury to wartime Europe to the Middle East, and learning a bit about DIY along the way. Издательство: "Penguin Group" (2010)
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Marina Lewycka
Marina Lewycka (born 1946, Kiel) is a British novelist of Ukrainian origin, currently living in Sheffield, England.
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Biography
Marina Lewycka was born in a refugee camp in Kiel, Germany after World War II. Her family subsequently moved to England where she now lives. She graduated from Keele University in 1968 with BA in English and Philosophy and from the University of York with a BPhil in English Literature in 1969.[1] She began, but did not complete, a PhD at King's College London.
She currently works as a lecturer in media studies at Sheffield Hallam University.[2]
Works
Lewycka's debut novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian won the 2005 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing at the Hay literary festival,[3] the 2005/6 Waverton Good Read Award, the 2005 Saga Award for Wit;[2] it was long-listed for the 2005 Man Booker Prize[4] and short-listed for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction.[2][5] The novel has been translated into over twenty-nine languages, including Romanian, Bulgarian, Dutch, Russian, Norwegian, Italian, Spanish, German, Swedish, Finnish, Portuguese, and Catalan.[6][dead link]
Lewycka said in a 2008 interview that she would have been happy to write a sequel to A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian after the initial book's success but was advised against doing so.[citation needed] Instead she wrote her second novel Two Caravans, which was published in hardback in March 2007 by Fig Tree (Penguin Books) for the United Kingdom market, and was shortlisted for the 2008 Orwell Prize for political writing.[7] In the United States and Canada it is published under the title Strawberry Fields.
Lewycka's third novel We Are All Made of Glue was released in July 2009.[8]
In 2009, she donated the short story "The Importance of Having Warm Feet" to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Lewycka's story was published in the 'Earth' collection.[9]
Later the same year, she donated a second short story, "Business Philosophy", to the Amnesty International anthology Freedom: Short Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.[10]
In addition to her fiction, Lewycka has written a number of books giving practical advice for carers of elderly people, published by the charity Age Concern.
References
- ^ "From Tractors to Caravans". Grapevine (Alumni Office, University of York) (Autumn 2007): 17.
- ^ a b c Contemporary Writers, British Council
- ^ BBC
- ^ Man Booker Prize 2005
- ^ Guardian
- ^ Translations of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
- ^ The Orwell Prize Shortlist 2008
- ^ Amazon UK
- ^ Oxfam: Ox-Tales
- ^ Amazon UK
External links
- Fans of Marina Lewycka Facebook Group
- Complete bibliography, list of awards and critical perspective at Contemporary Writers website
- In depth biographical article at Derbyshire Life magazine website
- "Better Late Than Never", Interview by Stephen Moss, The Guardian, 31 May 2007. Retrieved on 31 May 2007
- Three Monkeys Interview
- Debut Novelist Takes Comic Prize about her winning the Bollinger for A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
- Review of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Guardian, 19 March 2005
- Review of Two Caravans, TimesOnLine, 25 March 2007
- Interview in the Guardian, 15 July 2008
- Marina Lewycka talks about We are all Made of Glue on The Interview Online
- Academics of Sheffield Hallam University
- Alumni of Keele University
- Alumni of King's College London
- English novelists
- People from Sheffield
- British people of Ukrainian descent
- People from Kiel
- 1946 births
- Living people
- Alumni of the University of York
Источник: Marina Lewycka
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