A Perfectly Good Man, Patrick Gale

Автор: Gale, Patrick
Название: Notes from an exhibition
ISBN: 0007254660 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007254668
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: The new novel from the bestselling Patrick Gale. Renowned Canadian artist Rachel Kelly -- now of Penzance -- has buried her past and married a gentle and loving Cornish man. Her life has been a sacrifice to both her extraordinary art and her debilitating manic depression.

Автор: Patrick Gale
Название: Friendly Fire
ISBN: 0007151047 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007151042
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Описание: Youthful beauty, intellectual brilliance, physical passion, tragedy and disgrace are all in, this wonderful new Patrick Gale novel, as told thrgh the eyes of a 14-year-old girl. Phil is a self-contained, exceptionally bright child, who has no known parents and has spent all her life in a children's home. Her life is transformed, when she wins a scholarship to Tatham's, a kind of Oxbridge university for teenagers, but this is only the start of an education as much emotional as intellectual. She falls hopelessly in love with Lucas, adored gay son of a wealthy Jewish family and, through him, is drawn into a tangle of betrayed friendship and forbidden passions that ends in tragedy and disgrace. But school is only half the story. Spanning the years 1975 to 1979, the chapters alternate between terms and holidays, between Phil's dogged pursuit of the glittering prizes and her slow, painful discovery of, who she is and where she belongs. Through other people's families, and especially other people's mothers, she learns as much about the mysterious laws of class and love, as she learns from her teachers, about the Latin and Greek that will prove her passport to security.

Автор: Patrick Gale
Название: Ease
ISBN: 0586091475 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780586091470
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Описание: A novel about downsizing from a life of ease and upgrading to one of sleaze. Many people would kill to be Domina Tey. She's one of life's successes: an award-winning playwright living in a beautiful house with an equally celebrated writer. A lucky woman. She knows it. And she appreciates it. But she isn't happy. Life is too easy. It's becoming stultifying, negating her creative force. She decides upon a spell of sleazy living to give both her work and her soul a spring-clean -- and elopes with her typewriter in search of just a hint of degradation. She finds it in Bayswater. Safe in bedsit land, she immediately sets about getting to know her neighbour, a candidate for the priesthood half her age.

Автор: Patrick Gale
Название: Facts of Life, The
ISBN: 0007307667 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007307661
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Описание: A brilliant novel from the author of `Notes from an Exhibition` -- that follows three genrations of an unusual family as they confront the harsher facts of modern life.