Robinson - Brossura

Spark, Muriel

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0140021574 ISBN 13: 9780140021578

Casa editrice: Penguin, 1964

Riassunto

January Marlow, a heroine with a Catholic outlook of the most unsentimental stripe, is one of three survivors out of twenty-nine souls when her plane crashes, blazing, on Robinson's island. Presumed dead for months, the three survivors must wait for the annual return of the pomegranate boat. Robinson, a determined loner, proves a fair if misanthropic host to his uninvited guests; he encourages January to keep a journal: as "an occupation for my mind, and I fancied that I might later dress it up for a novel. That was most peculiar, as things transpired, for I did not then anticipate how the journal would turn upon me, so that having survived the plane disaster, I should nearly meet my death through it." In Robinson, Muriel Spark's wonderful second novel, under the tropical glare and strange fogs of the tiny island, we find a volcano, a ping-pong playing cat, a dealer in occult as well as lucky charms, flying ants, sexual tension, a disappearance, blackmail, and -- perhaps -- murder.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 1964
• ISBN 10: 0140021574
• ISBN 13: 9780140021578
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 176