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A touching, clever novel about stories, about using them to create your own identity, and about the way they can forge bonds of love. It is 1919. Elizabeth Whitman is working as a nurse in the local hospital, waiting for her husband to return from war, though he is missing in action, 'presumed dead'. She keeps him alive for their four-year-old son, Jack, by telling the story of a man she calls The Balloonist, who went away in a hot-air balloon and has adventures in exotic countries. When she is asked to nurse a returned soldier whose head injury has reduced him to an animal-like state with no memory, Elizabeth starts telling stories to him. It is through them that she manages to engage his interest and offer him a new life . . . in more ways than one.
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The Virgin and the Whale, Carl Nixon
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 2013
- Reliure
- (souple),
- État du livre
- Bon
- Prix
- 14,99 €
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- Titre
- The Virgin and the Whale
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Carl Nixon
- Éditeur
- Random House New Zealand
- Publié
- 2013
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 264
- ISBN10
- 1775533751
- ISBN13
- 9781775533757
- Séries
- Catégories
- Mots clés
- Évaluation
- 4,8 sur 5
- Description
- A touching, clever novel about stories, about using them to create your own identity, and about the way they can forge bonds of love. It is 1919. Elizabeth Whitman is working as a nurse in the local hospital, waiting for her husband to return from war, though he is missing in action, 'presumed dead'. She keeps him alive for their four-year-old son, Jack, by telling the story of a man she calls The Balloonist, who went away in a hot-air balloon and has adventures in exotic countries. When she is asked to nurse a returned soldier whose head injury has reduced him to an animal-like state with no memory, Elizabeth starts telling stories to him. It is through them that she manages to engage his interest and offer him a new life . . . in more ways than one.