Great Circle: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021
Editorial RANDOM HOUSE UK
España peninsular
- Editorial RANDOM HOUSE UK
- ISBN13 9781529176643
- ISBN10 1529176646
- Tipo LIBRO
- Colección RANDOM HOUSE UK #
- Año de Edición 2022
- Idioma Inglés
- Encuadernación Paperback
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Literatura InglesaGreat Circle: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021
Editorial RANDOM HOUSE UK
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
A soaring, breathtakingly ambitious novel that weaves together the astonishing lives of a 1950s vanished female aviator and the modern-day Hollywood actress who plays her on screen. For fans of TAYLOR JENKINS REID, WILLIAM BOYD and ANN PATCHETT
From her days as a wild child in prohibition America to the blitz and glitz of wartime London, from the rugged shores of New Zealand to a lonely iceshelf in Antarctica, Marian Graves is driven by a need for freedom and danger.
Determined to live an independent life, she resists the pull of her childhood sweetheart, and burns her way through a suite of glamorous lovers. But it is an obsession with flight that consumes her most.
Now, as she is about to fulfil her greatest ambition, to circumnavigate the globe from pole to pole, Marian crash lands in a perilous wilderness of ice.
Over half a century later, troubled film star Hadley Baxter is drawn inexorably to play the enigmatic pilot on screen. It is a role that will lead her to an unexpected discovery, throwing fresh and spellbinding light on the story of the unknowable Marian Graves.