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Winter (Paperback)
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Winter (Paperback)
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List price R268
Loot Price R219
Discovery Miles 2 190
You Save R49 (18%)
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From the author of the Costa Best Novel-shortlisted 'The Elephant
Keeper', a poignant imagining of Thomas Hardy's relationship with
his last muse. In the winter of 1924 the most celebrated English
writer of the day, 84-year-old Thomas Hardy, was living at his
Dorset home of Max Gate with his second wife, Florence. Aged 45 but
in poor health, Florence came to suspect that Hardy was in the grip
of a romantic infatuation. The woman in question was a beautiful
local actress, 27-year-old Gertrude Bugler, who was playing Tess in
the first dramatic adaptation of Hardy's most famous novel, 'Tess
of the d'Urbervilles'. Inspired by these events, 'Winter' is a
brilliantly realised portrait of an old man and his imaginative
life; the life that has brought him fame and wealth, but that
condemns him to living lives he can't hope to lead, and reliving
those he thought he once led. It is also, though, about the women
who now surround him: the middle-aged, childless woman who thought
she would find happiness as his handmaiden; and the young actress,
with her youthful ambitions and desires, who came between them.
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