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The Lighthouse Genomineerd voor de Man Booker Prize 2012

Name: The Lighthouse
Author: Alison Moore

Auteur: Alison Moore

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Alison Moore

Engels
Paperback
9781907773174
15 augustus 2012
192 pagina's

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On the outer deck of a North Sea ferry stands Futh, a middle-aged and newly separated man, on his way to Germany for a restorative walking holiday. As he contemplates an earlier trip to Germany and the things he has done in his life, he does not foresee the potentially devastating consequences of things not done.

Winner of the 2013 McKitterick Prize

Shortlisted for the 2013 East Midlands Book Award

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012

Shortlisted for New Writer of the Year in the 2012 Specsavers National Book Awards

Observer Book of the Year 2012

The Lighthouse begins on a North Sea ferry, on whose blustery outer deck stands Futh, a middle-aged, recently separated man heading to Germany for a restorative walking holiday.

Spending his first night in Hellhaus at a small, family-run hotel, he finds the landlady hospitable but is troubled by an encounter with an inexplicably hostile barman.

In the morning, Futh puts the episode behind him and sets out on his week-long circular walk along the Rhine. As he travels, he contemplates his childhood; a complicated friendship with the son of a lonely neighbour; his parents’ broken marriage and his own. But the story he keeps coming back to, the person and the event affecting all others, is his mother and her abandonment of him as a boy, which left him with a void to fill, a substitute to find.

He recalls his first trip to Germany with his newly single father. He is mindful of something he neglected to do there, an omission which threatens to have devastating repercussions for him this time around.

At the end of the week, Futh, sunburnt and blistered, comes to the end of his circular walk, returning to what he sees as the sanctuary of the Hellhaus hotel, unaware of the events which have been unfolding there in his absence.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 15 augustus 2012
Aantal pagina's: 192
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Alison Moore
Hoofduitgeverij: Salt Publishing
Co Uitgever(s): BE

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 129 mm
Product hoogte: 11 mm
Product lengte: 198 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 129 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 11 mm
Verpakking lengte: 198 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 88 g

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EAN: 9781907773174

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