Modern Classics Jerusalem the Golden (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Drabble, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141197277 ISBN 13: 9780141197272

Publisher: Penguin Classic, 2011

Synopsis

Brought up in a stifling, emotionless home in the north of England, Clara finds freedom when she wins a scholarship and travels to London. There, she meets Clelia and the rest of the Denham family: brilliant and charming, they dazzle Clara with their flair for life, and Clara yearns to be part of their bohemian world. But while she will do anything to join their circle, she gives no thought to the chaos that she may cause... In this captivating story of growing up and moving on, Margaret Drabble explores what it means to leave a disregarded childhood and family behind.

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret Drabble was born in 1939 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, the daughter of barrister and novelist John F. Drabble, and sister of novelist A.S. Byatt. She is the author of seventeen novels and eight works of non-fiction, including biographies of Arnold Bennett and Angus Wilson. In 1980, Margaret Drabble was made a CBE and in 2008 she was made DBE. She is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd, and lives in London and Somerset.

Review:

An extraordinary work * The New York Times * Like Doris Lessing, that genius of the forcefully "creating" work of fiction, Miss Drabble presents characters who are not passively witnessing their lives (and ours); she is not a writer who reflects the helplessness of the stereotyped "sick society," but one who has taken upon herself the task, largely ignored today, of attempting the active, vital, energetic, mysterious re-creation of a set of values by which human beings can live -- Joyce Carol Oates Drabble excels at describing the minute detail of human behaviour * Independent *

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classic
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0141197277
• ISBN 13: 9780141197272
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254