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Linda Grant
Other Titles by This Author:
Still Here
The Cast Iron Shore
The Clothes on Their Backs
The People on the Street
The Thoughtful Dresser
Linda Grant
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- ISBN: 1844086488
- ISBN-13: 9781844086481
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2010
- Pages: 448 (198 x 126)
- Format: Paperback
- Published Price: £8.99
- Discount Price: £7.19
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'This is a capacious and wide-ranging book, not just about individuals but about the history they move through. Whether the scene is Liverpool in the Blitz, a potato-chip factory in the prairies or a seedy hotel room in Hanoi, the writing is immediate ...Grant approaches each character with insight and a tart sympathy' Hilary Mantel, Literary Review Sybil Ross has been brought up by her Jewish furrier father and style-obsessed mother as an empty-headed fashion plate. But on the worst night of Liverpool's blitz she uncovers a secret that leaves her disorientated. When the war is over, Sybil embarks on a voyage that leads her to the very edge of America, and to a final choice. THE CAST IRON SHORE is a beautuful evocation of one woman's journey from the 1930s to the 1990s, combining the personal and political in an outstanding first novel. -
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY:
Linda Grant is a novelist and journalist. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000 and the Lettre Ulysses Prize for Literary Reportage in 2006. She writes for the Guardian, Telegraph and Vogue.
