Fortunes of War: The Levant Trilogy
de Manning, Olivia
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1590177215
- ISBN 13
- 9781590177211
- Librería
-
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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Olivia Manning (1908–1980) was born in Portsmouth, England, and spent much of her childhood in Northern Ireland. Her father, Oliver, was a penniless British sailor who rose to become a naval commander, and her mother, Olivia, had a prosperous Anglo-Irish background. Manning trained as a painter at the Portsmouth School of Art, then moved to London and turned to writing. She published her first novel under her own name in 1938 (she had published several potboilers in a local paper under the name Jacob Morrow while a teenager). The next year she married R.D. “Reggie” Smith, and the couple moved to Romania, where Smith was employed by the British Council. During World War II , the couple fled before the Nazi advance, first to Greece and then to Jerusalem, where they lived until the end of the war. Manning wrote several novels during the 1950s, but her first real success as a novelist was The Great Fortune (1960), the first of six books concerning Guy and Harriet Pringle, whose wartime experiences and troubled marriage echoed that of the diffident Manning and her gregarious husband. In the 1980s these novels were collected in two volumes, The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy , known collectively as Fortunes of Wa r. In addition to her novels, Manning wrote essays and criticism, history, a screenplay, and a book about Burmese and Siamese cats. She was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1976, and died four years later. Rachel Cusk is the author of seven novels and two works of non-fiction. She teaches creative writing at Kingston University, London.
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- Librería
- Voyageur Book Shop (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 018599
- Título
- Fortunes of War: The Levant Trilogy
- Autor
- Manning, Olivia
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition.
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 1590177215
- ISBN 13
- 9781590177211
- Editorial
- NYRB Classics
- Lugar de publicación
- New York; NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 2014
- Páginas
- 568
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction;
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