Opis: The Darkness of Wallis Simpson - Tremain Rose

Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman for whom Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, ended her life (as the Duchess of Windsor) as the prisoner of her lawyer who would not allow anyone friend, foe or journalist to visit her in her Paris flat. Rose Tremain takes this true story and transforms it into an imaginative and ironic fiction. Her thesis is that Wallis, gaga and bed-ridden, had forgotten the king who gave up an empire for love of her.
This superb story plays with the selectiveness of memory: why does Wallis recall the seemingly unimportant, while forgetting the glory days of her notoriety She can remember her first two husbands one a bit of a brute, the other very boring but not the world-famous third one.
The other stories in this magnificent collection range over a variety of themes, equally original and unexpected: an East German border guard, redundant after the Berlin Wall comes down in 1989, imagines that he might still have a purpose in life. He tries to reach Russia by bicycling across the hostile wastes of Poland. A jilted man gets his revenge. A baby grows wings. A character in an Impressionist painting escapes from his frame or does he And theres a Christmas story set in a seedy hotel.

Szczegóły: The Darkness of Wallis Simpson - Tremain Rose

Tytuł: The Darkness of Wallis Simpson
Autor: Tremain Rose
Wydawnictwo: Vintage
Kod paskowy: 9780099268567
ISBN: 0099268566
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2006
Ilość stron: 218
Format: 12.0x20.0cm
Oprawa: Kartonowa Foliowana
Waga: 0.16 kg

Recenzje: The Darkness of Wallis Simpson - Tremain Rose