Angel

Resumen del libro

INTRODUCED BY HILARY MANTELElizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth - Sarah WatersWriting stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of romance, escaping the drabness of provincial life. She knows she is different, that she is destined to become a feted authoress, owner of great riches and of Paradise House . .

. After reading The Lady Irania, publishers Brace and Gilchrist are certain the novel will be a success, in spite of - perhaps because of - its overblown style. But they are curious as to who could have written such a book - an elderly lady, romanticising behind lace curtains? A mustachioed rogue? They were not expecting it to be the pale, serious teenage girl, sitting before them without a hint of irony in her soul.

*'Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning-point in one's own experience' Elizabeth Bowen 'No writer has described the English middle classes with more gently devastating accuracy' Rebecca Abrams, Spectator

Biografía del autor

p b Elizabeth Taylor /b (Reading, 1912 - Buckinghamshire, 1975) está considerada una de las escritoras británicas más relevantes del siglo xx. Trabajó como institutriz y bibliotecaria antes de casarse en 1936, y escribió su primer libro, i At Mrs Lippincote's /i (1945), durante la guerra, mientras su marido estaba en la Royal Air Force. Le siguieron otras once novelas, entre ellas i La señorita Dashwood /i (1946), i Una vista del puerto /i (1947), i El juego del amor /i (1951), i Ángel /i (1957), i En el verano /i (1961), i Un alma cándida /i (1964) y i Prohibido morir aquí /i (1971; Libros del Asteroide, 2025), finalista del premio Booker y considerada una de las cien mejores novelas de todos los tiempos según i The Guardian /i . Sus retratos inteligentes y entrañables de la vida de la clase media inglesa le granjearon popularidad. Sus aclamados cuentos pudieron leerse en i Vogue /i , i The New Yorker /i y i Harper's Bazaar /i , entre otras publicaciones.<br>