Pauline Holdstock
Autor(a) de A Rare and Curious Gift: A Novel
About the Author
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Obras de Pauline Holdstock
The Devil and the Deep 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1948
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- England (birth)
Canada - Local de nascimento
- England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Ocupação
- essayist
historical novelist
lecturer - Organizações
- University of Victoria
Membros
Resenhas
Listas
Prêmios
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Membros
- 120
- Popularidade
- #165,356
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Resenhas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 19
There is a feral girl stealing from local people in a village in France. They try to catch her, but she gets away and ends up another village over. A farmer(?) there, Peyre, is intrigued by her. Peyre tries to entice her to come, as he’d like to see if he can “tame” her. He sees his son, whom he’s lost a while back, in her.
This started off really slow and I wasn’t interested. Parts I didn’t like and just skimmed through were mostly Peyre’s background (though I eventually got the gist of at least what happened with his son and wife). It was only the last half or 1/3 of the book, which focused more on the girl, where I was a bit more interested in what was happening. The ending was open-ended, so I wasn’t a big fan not really knowing what had happened there.… (mais)