Née au pays de Galles en 1980, Grace McCleen a étudié la littérature anglaise à Brasenose College, Oxford, et se destinait à être universitaire. Mais, déçue par la forme académique, elle a commencé à écrire un roman, qui en devint trois – parmi lesquels cette histoire d'une enfant convaincue de pouvoir faire des miracles, devenue son premier roman.
Son site Internet : www.gracemccleen.com
Elizabeth Stone, a respected academic, has a new lease on life. In remission from cancer, she returns to the city where she was a student over thirty years ago to investigate some little-known papers by T. S. Eliot, which she believes contain the seeds of her masterpiece; a masterpiece that centres on a poem given to her when she was eighteen by the elusive Professor Hunt...
But as the days pass in the city she loves and her friendship with Professor Hunt is rekindled, her memories return her to a time shadowed by loneliness, longing and quiet despair, and to an undeclared but overwhelming love. Paralysed by the fear of writing something worthless, haunted by a sense of waste, Elizabeth Stone comes to realise she is facing the biggest test of her life.
As in her acclaimed debut The Land of Decoration, Grace McCleen gives an intense evocation of place, an unflinching portrayal of a character by turns comic, absurd, and disturbing, and a powerful sense of the transcendent within the ordinary. Profound and hypnotic, The Professor of Poetry devastates even as it exhilarates and echoes long after it has been closed.
Título : The Professor of Poetry
EAN : 9781444769968
Editorial : Hodder & Stoughton
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