Five bells (notice nᵒ 317056)

détails MARC
010 ## - ISBN
ISBN 9781864710601
101 ## - langue
langue du document anglais
langue de l'oeuvre originale anglais
102 ## - pays d'édition ou de production
pays d'édition Australie
200 ## - titre
titre Five bells
type doc Livre
auteur Gail Jones
210 ## - éditeur
lieu de publication [S.l.]
nom de l'editeur Vintage Books
date de publication 2011
215 ## - description
volume et page 1 vol. (216 p.)
format 24 cm
330 ## - résumé
résumé On a radiant day in Sydney, four people converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Each of the four is haunted by memories of the past: Ellie is preoccupied by her experiences as a girl, James by a tragedy for which he feels responsible, Catherine by the loss of her beloved brother in Dublin and Pei Xing by her imprisonment during China's Cultural Revolution. Told over the course of a single Saturday, Five Bells describes vividly four lives which chime and resonate. By night-time, when Sydney is drenched in a rainstorm, each life has been transformed.<br/><br/><br/><br/>They were showing the savages on the rooftop - that was the word at the kerbstone.<br/>Set amid the skyscrapers of 1890s Chicago and the far-flung islands of the South Pacific,<br/>Bright and Distant Shores is both a sweeping epic and a triumph of lyrical storytelling.<br/><br/>Chicago First Equitable has won the race to construct the world's tallest building and its<br/>president, Hale Gray, hits upon a surefire way to make it an enduring landmark: to establish<br/>on the roof an exhibition of real-life 'savages'. He sponsors a South Seas voyage to collect<br/>not only weaponry and artefacts, but also 'several natives related by blood' for the<br/>company's rooftop spectacle. Caught up in this scheme are two orphans: Owen Graves, the<br/>voyage's head trader from Chicago's South Side, and Argus Niu, a mission houseboy in<br/>Melanesia - two young men haunted by their pasts.<br/><br/>With echoes of Melville, Doctorow and Carey, Bright and Distant Shores is at once a<br/>remarkable love story and a breathtaking adventure that chronicles the clash of the tribal<br/>and the civilised at a pivotal moment in history. An extraordinary feat of imagination and<br/>storytelling, it will wholly seduce you.
345 ## - note
source de l'acquisition, adresse pour l'abonnement 29,95 $au
676 ## - classification
indice Dewey 899.3
700 ## - auteur(s)
auteur Jones
prénom Gail
dates 1955-
801 ## - source de catalogage
pays FR
agence de catalogage MO
date de transaction 20120723
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