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基本信息·出版社：Pan Books
·页码：437 页
·出版日期：2006年10月
·ISBN：0330442899
·条形码：9780330442893
·版本：2006-10-01
·装帧：平装
·开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
·外文书名：午夜仙人掌
内容简介 Book DescriptionOn the run from her claustrophobic marriage in London, Alice Coleman moves her two small children to a ghost town in the Arizona desert - and there escapes to a solitude she hadn't thought possible.
But the mythic south-west has room for more than one fugitive. In the dusty, alien atmosphere, it seems that everyone - from Benjamin, the town's loyal caretaker, to the laconic and mysterious Duval - has something to hide. And as winter moves to scorching summer, what seemed idyllic turns deadly as Alice is drawn deeper into an obessive quest for revenge.
Vivid and compelling,
Midnight Cactus explores the tensions between unrealized dreams and the pull of family until finally, in a blistering climax, Alice is forced to decide just what she is willing to sacrifice to hold on to her freedom.
Book Dimension length: (cm) 17.8 width:(cm)11.1
作者简介 Bella Pollen is a writer and journalist who has contributed to a wide variety of publications, including the
Sunday Telegraph, American
Vogue and the
Observer. She is the author of three other novels,
All About Men, Hunting Unicorns and
Daydream Girl. She lives in Ladbroke Grove, London.
媒体推荐 Reviews 1. "Effortlessly readable, this is an engrossing novel about love, alienation and political intrigue written in deceptively simple prose. Pollen perfectly captures the emotional turbulence of her heroine and the unforgiving beauty of this arid territory'
Mail on Sunday2. "Pollen is entirely in control of her material, perfectly pacing the book to tantalisingly unravel secrets. Her descriptions of the landscape are powerful and evocative and the setting as enigmatic as the eccentric characters...
Midnight Cactus is a delightful and rewarding novel, with moments of startling beauty...[which] stands apart as a work that successful marries the qualities of literary and commercial fiction to create a novel that is narrative-driven and compelling but also intelligent and provocative."
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