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Description for The Outcast
Paperback. Traditional Chinese edition of The Outcast by Costa Novel Award winner Sadie Jones. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 30. Weight in Grams: 336. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
‘If you liked Atonement by Ian McEwan, you'll love this’ Harper's Bazaar
The bestselling novel from the author of The Snakes, The Outcast is a powerful portrait of unexpected love and treacherous charades against the backdrop of a sleepy post-war English village
August 1957. Lewis Aldridge, straight out of jail, stands alone at a Surrey railway station.
He’s returned to the village where he grew up: the village where, a decade earlier, tragedy tore his family apart, leaving him to a troubled adolescence without a mother and with a father he barely knew.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099513421
SKU
KAK0011249
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Sadie Jones
Sadie Jones is the critically acclaimed author of six novels. Her first, The Outcast, won the Costa First Novel Award, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, and was a Richard and Judy Number One bestseller. Her second, Small Wars, 2009, was longlisted for the Orange Prize. The Uninvited Guests, was published in 2010. Also a screenwriter, Sadie adapted The Outcast ... Read more
Reviews for The Outcast
An elegant, subtle, haunting novel that stayed with me long after I finished it. Sadie Jones has a long literary future ahead of her
Tracy Chevalier The prose is elegant and spare, but the story it reveals is raw and explosive... Devastatingly good'
Eithne Farry
Daily Mail
Jones's story is imbued with brooding atmosphere and drama. ... Read more
Tracy Chevalier The prose is elegant and spare, but the story it reveals is raw and explosive... Devastatingly good'
Eithne Farry
Daily Mail
Jones's story is imbued with brooding atmosphere and drama. ... Read more