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The other side of the world : a novel / Stephanie Bishop.
Van Pelt Library PR9619.4.B557 O84 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bishop, Stephanie, 1979- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Interracial marriage--Fiction.
- Interracial marriage.
- Home.
- England.
- Home--Fiction.
- Identity (Psychology)--Fiction.
- Identity (Psychology).
- England--Fiction.
- Australia--Fiction.
- Australia.
- India--Fiction.
- India.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 240 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Atria books hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atria Books, 2016.
- Summary:
- "In the tradition of The Hours and Revolutionary Road, an astonishingly beautiful novel about marriage, motherhood, identity, nostalgia, and the fantasy of home, set in England, Australia, and India in the early 1960s"-- Provided by publisher.
- 1963. Charlotte is struggling with marriage and motherhood; her husband, Henry, cannot face the thought of another English winter. Before she knows it they are traveling to Australia. But their new life is not the answer either was hoping for. Charlotte is no longer a promising young artist, but instead a lonely housewife, venturing into infidelity. Henry, an Anglo-Indian, is slowly ostracized at the university where he teaches poetry. Is there anywhere in this world they truly belong?
- Notes:
- The Other Side of the World is her second novel and was shortlisted for the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award under the title Dream England. It was published in London by Tinder Press as The other side of the world (2015).
- ISBN:
- 9781501133121
- 1501133128
- 9781501133138
- 1501133136
- OCLC:
- 928480975
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