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基本信息·出版社：Virago Press Ltd
·页码：506 页
·出版日期：2007年02月
·ISBN：1844082415
·条形码：9781844082414
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
内容简介 Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller. This is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past, drawn with absolute truth and intimacy. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a restless hunger, searching ...Helen, clever, sweet, much-loved, harbours a painful secret ...Viv, glamour girl, is stubbornly, even foolishly loyal, to her soldier lover ...Duncan, an apparent innocent, has had his own demons to fight during the war. Their lives, and their secrets connect in sometimes startling ways. War leads to strange alliances ...Tender, tragic and beautifully poignant, set against the backdrop of feats of heroism both epic and ordinary, here is a novel of relationships that offers up subtle surprises and twists. The Night Watch is thrilling. A towering achievement.
作者简介 Thrice crowned 2003 Author of the Year - by the Booksellers Association, Waterstone's and The British Book Awards. Winner of The South Bank Show Award, Sunday Times Author of the Year, The Somerset Maugham Award and the CWA. Shortlisted for the Man Booker
媒体推荐 'A stunning achievement' John Harding, Daily Mail'Brilliantly done ... the period detail never overwhelms the simple, passionate human story. It's a tour-de-force of hints, clues and dropped threads' Suzi Feay, Independent on Sunday 'A truthful, lovel
编辑推荐 Review 'A stunning achievement' John Harding, Daily Mail'Brilliantly done ... the period detail never overwhelms the simple, passionate human story. It's a tour-de-force of hints, clues and dropped threads' Suzi Feay, Independent on Sunday 'A truthful, lovel
Suzi Feay, Independent on Sunday 'Brilliantly done... a tour-de-force of hints, clues and dropped threads'
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Melanie McGrath, Evening Standard 'Sarah Waters's latest offering lingers on, long after the final page and its first, most fateful meeting'
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. John Harding, Daily Mail 'A stunning achievement. Waters's meticulous research drops the reader, emotionally and physically, into the maelstrom of the London Blitz'
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Peter Kemp, Sunday Times 'This outstandingly gifted novelist releases her imagination into her most compelling depiction yet'
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