Crossing the Lines - Softcover

Bragg, Melvyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340829672 ISBN 13: 9780340829677

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004

Synopsis

'Marvellous...richly detailed and extraordinarily poignant' David Robson, Sunday Telegraph Set in Britain during the 1950s, this moving and evocative novel follows the intertwined fates of people crossing boundaries in their lives -- from growing older to growing up, from first love to leaving home. Vividly conveying the spirit of the mid-century and the profound social changes taking place at the time, this is an enthralling successor to the award-winning The Soldier's Return and A Son of War. 'Bragg brilliantly conveys Joe's youthful idealism and the ultimate dislocation from family and community that will be experienced by the working-class lad (or lass) who manages to win a university education ...I, frankly, can't wait to read what happens next.' Val Hennessy, Daily Mail 'If you want to know what Labour England after 1945 was really like, I cannot recommend [it] too highly...His three novels on the subject put even the historians in the shade.' Michael Foot, Guardian 'Sharp yet tender, it is an astonishingly confident, slowly unreeled account' Rosemary Goring, Glasgow Herald

About this title

About the Author:

Melvyn Bragg is a writer and broadcaster. His novels include The Hired Man, for which he won the Time/Life Silver Pen Award, Without a City Wall, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The Soldier's Return, winner of the WHSmith Literary Award, A Son of War and Crossing the Lines, both of which were longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, A Place in England, which was longlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize, and most recently Grace and Mary. He has also written several works of non-fiction, including The Book of Books about the King James Bible. He lives in London and Cumbria.

From AudioFile:

The third in Melvyn Bragg's series, set in the 1950s in Britain, focuses on Joe Richardson, a teenager who begins the book as a schoolboy and ends it a student at Oxford. In between, Joe experiences everything from love to political consciousness to the realiz-ation that his parents, who are dealing with middle age, have their own bag-gage. Mark McGann reads with flair and subtlety. McGann has a wonderful voice, and he transitions well from the angst Joe feels when experiencing his first love to the maturity and judgment Joe exhibits in dealing with more complex situations. Bragg is not particularly well known in the United States; perhaps this title will bring him some well-deserved recognition. D.J.S. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0340829672
• ISBN 13: 9780340829677
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496