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The Dark Flood Rises
Margaret Drabble
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Description for The Dark Flood Rises
paperback. The new novel from literary great Margaret Drabble is by turns dark and joyous, hilarious and heartbreaking, and asks us what makes a good life, and a good death Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017: 'masterly' GUARDIAN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: 'An absolute tour de force' Fran may be old but she's not going without a fight. So she dyes her hair, enjoys every glass of red wine, drives restlessly around the country and lives in an insalubrious tower block that her loved ones disapprove of. And as each of them - her pampered ex Claude, old friend Jo, flamboyant son Christopher and earnest daughter Poppet - seeks happiness in their own way, what will the last reckoning be? Will they be waving or drowning when the end comes? By turns joyous and profound, darkly sardonic and moving, The Dark Flood Rises questions what makes a good life, and a good death.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782118336
SKU
V9781782118336
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Margaret Drabble
Dame Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the author of eighteen novels including A Summer Bird-Cage, The Millstone, The Peppered Moth, The Red Queen, The Sea Lady and most recently, the highly acclaimed The Pure Gold Baby. She has also written biographies, screenplays and was the editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature. She was appointed CBE in 1980, and made DBE in the 2008 Honours list. She was also awarded the 2011 Golden PEN Award for a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature. She is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd.
Reviews for The Dark Flood Rises
An absolute tour de force
LINDA GRANT
Guardian, Best Books of the Year
Erudite, beautifully written, funny, tragic
Daily Mail
Masterly
New York Times, 100 Notable Books of 2017
Darkly witty and exhilarating
The Times
Her distinctive narrative voice and soaring prose remain electrifying
Telegraph
With its echoes of Simone de Beauvoir and Samuel Beckett, this quiet meditation an old age seethes with apocalyptic intent . . . Brilliant
Guardian
Masterly, poignant and uplifting
Mail on Sunday
Drabble has pulled off a quietly revolutionary portrait of an age-group whose lives are just as urgent as anyone's but are rarely considered
Sunday Telegraph
Ageing and dying in style . . . Margaret Drabble's sharply drawn characters look back on lives lived and forwards to achieving a good death
Observer
My novel of the year . . . Like a blood transfusion of ideas, feelings
LINDA GRANT
LINDA GRANT
Guardian, Best Books of the Year
Erudite, beautifully written, funny, tragic
Daily Mail
Masterly
New York Times, 100 Notable Books of 2017
Darkly witty and exhilarating
The Times
Her distinctive narrative voice and soaring prose remain electrifying
Telegraph
With its echoes of Simone de Beauvoir and Samuel Beckett, this quiet meditation an old age seethes with apocalyptic intent . . . Brilliant
Guardian
Masterly, poignant and uplifting
Mail on Sunday
Drabble has pulled off a quietly revolutionary portrait of an age-group whose lives are just as urgent as anyone's but are rarely considered
Sunday Telegraph
Ageing and dying in style . . . Margaret Drabble's sharply drawn characters look back on lives lived and forwards to achieving a good death
Observer
My novel of the year . . . Like a blood transfusion of ideas, feelings
LINDA GRANT