Книга: Swift G. «Mothering Sunday»
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Производитель: "Schuster" From the Booker-winning author of Last Orders and Waterland comes a long-awaited new novel - `Mothering Sunday is bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly... Swift`s small fiction feels like a masterpiece`Guardian It is March 30th 1924. It is Mothering Sunday. How will Jane Fairchild, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? How, shaped by the events of this never to be forgotten day, will her future unfold? Beginning with an intimate assignation and opening to embrace decades, Mothering Sunday has at its heart both the story of a life and the life that stories can magically contain. Constantly surprising, joyously sensual and deeply moving, it is Graham Swift at his thrilling best. `Mothering Sunday is a powerful, philosophical and exquisitely observed novel about the lives we lead, and the parallel lives - the parallel stories - we can never know ... Издательство: "Schuster" (2017)
ISBN: 978-1-4711-5524-6 |
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См. также в других словарях:
Mothering Sunday — ► NOUN Brit. ▪ the fourth Sunday in Lent, traditionally a day for honouring one s mother … English terms dictionary
Mothering Sunday — Mothering .Sunday n [U and C] BrE old fashioned ↑Mother s Day … Dictionary of contemporary English
Mothering Sunday — Not to be confused with Mother s Day. Gregorian dates for Mothering Sunday 2004 21 March 2005 6 March 2006 26 March 2007 18 March 2008 2 March 2009 22 March 2010 14 March 2011 3 April 2012 18 March 2013 … Wikipedia
Mothering Sunday — On Mothering Sunday, or Mid Lent Sunday (fourth Sunday in Lent), children and young people living away from their parents would make a point of going home for the day, taking presents, usually including a cake for their mother, and sharing a… … A Dictionary of English folklore
Mothering Sunday — UK [ˈmʌðərɪŋ ˌsʌndeɪ] / US [ˌmʌðərɪŋ ˈsʌnˌdeɪ] noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms Mothering Sunday : singular Mothering Sunday plural Mothering Sundays British old fashioned Mother s Day … English dictionary
Mothering Sunday — N UNCOUNT Mothering Sunday is the fourth Sunday in Lent, when children give cards and presents to their mothers as a sign of their love for them. [BRIT, OLD FASHIONED] Syn: Mother s Day … English dictionary
