The Wolf Border: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

Name: The Wolf Border: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Brand: Hall, Sarah
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Présentation de l'éditeur Her first new novel in 5 years. For almost a decade, Rachel Caine has turned her back on home in favour of her work monitoring wolves on an Idaho reserve. But she's been summoned back to the Lake District as part of a controversial scheme to reintroduce the grey wolf back into the English countryside. 'A writer of show-stopping genius' }Guardian Quatrième de couverture For almost a decade Rachel Caine has turned her back on home, kept distant by family disputes and her work monitoring wolves on an Idaho reservation. But now, summoned by the eccentric Earl of Annerdale and his controversial scheme to reintroduce the Grey Wolf to the English countryside, she is back in the peat and wet light of the Lake District. The earl's project harks back to an ancient idyll of untamed British wilderness - though Rachel must contend with modern-day concessions to health and safety, public outrage and political gain - and the return of the Grey after hundreds of years coincides with her own regeneration: impending motherhood, and reconciliation with her estranged family. The Wolf Border investigates the fundamental nature of wilderness and wildness, both animal and human. It seeks to understand the most obsessive aspects of humanity: sex, love, and conflict; the desire to find answers to the question of our existence; those complex systems that govern the most superior creature on earth. Biographie de l'auteur Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974. She is the prize-winning author of four novels - Haweswater, The Electric Michelangelo, The Carhullan Army and How to Paint a Dead Man - as well as The Beautiful Indifference, a collection of short stories. The first story in the collection, 'Butchers Perfume', was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, a prize she won in 2013 with 'Mrs Fox'. Afficher moinsAfficher plus

The Wolf Border: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

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Présentation de l'éditeur Her first new novel in 5 years. For almost a decade, Rachel Caine has turned her back on home in favour of her work monitoring wolves on an Idaho reserve. But she's been summoned back to the Lake District as part of a controversial scheme to reintroduce the grey wolf back into the English countryside. 'A writer of show-stopping genius' }Guardian Quatrième de couverture For almost a decade Rachel Caine has turned her back on home, kept distant by family disputes and her work monitoring wolves on an Idaho reservation. But now, summoned by the eccentric Earl of Annerdale and his controversial scheme to reintroduce the Grey Wolf to the English countryside, she is back in the peat and wet light of the Lake District. The earl's project harks back to an ancient idyll of untamed British wilderness - though Rachel must contend with modern-day concessions to health and safety, public outrage and political gain - and the return of the Grey after hundreds of years coincides with her own regeneration: impending motherhood, and reconciliation with her estranged family. The Wolf Border investigates the fundamental nature of wilderness and wildness, both animal and human. It seeks to understand the most obsessive aspects of humanity: sex, love, and conflict; the desire to find answers to the question of our existence; those complex systems that govern the most superior creature on earth. Biographie de l'auteur Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974. She is the prize-winning author of four novels - Haweswater, The Electric Michelangelo, The Carhullan Army and How to Paint a Dead Man - as well as The Beautiful Indifference, a collection of short stories. The first story in the collection, 'Butchers Perfume', was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, a prize she won in 2013 with 'Mrs Fox'. Afficher moinsAfficher plus