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Emma Tennant
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
New Directions
Publication date
May 1, 1999
Pages
183
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780811214094
ISBN-10
0811214095
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.75 by 8.25 in.
Weight
0.85 lbs.
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Out of Print
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$22.95
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§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
The novelist provides a memoir of her eccentric family, from her grandmother's feud with her great-aunt--the wife of Britain's prime minister--to her own lonely childhood on the family estate
(view table of contents)Amazon.com description: Product Description: Strangers is a literary memoir by Emma Tennant, the British novelist whose eccentric family is described here in a unique style, pristine and elegant. The story begins in 1912, as the world is about to break into war-where Emma's great-aunt, Margot Asquith (wife of Britain's Prime Minister), maintains an ongoing feud with her grandmother, the dreamy Pamela. Pamela's children are all poignantly evoked, including her son Bim who dies on the Somme. Pamela accepts his sacrifice "as if death lies in the faint outline of garden where it merges with rushes and reedbeds"; and Emma's father inherits Glen, the Scottish baronial seat. Gradually, we encounter Emma herself, a lonely child left in Glen during World War II, and a witness to the mysterious comings and goings of her extended family. The penultimate chapter portrays the decline of Emma's uncle, the famous aesthete Stephen Tennant, written about by V. S. Naipaul in The Enigma of the Arrival. Deeply evocative and atmospheric, and written with fascinating detail, Strangers is, as The Guardian explains: "a historical chronicle but also a reverie on where you put your family inside yourself."
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Hardcover
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from New Directions (May 1, 1999)
9780811214094 | details & prices | 183 pages | 5.75 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $22.95
About: The novelist provides a memoir of her eccentric family, from her grandmother's feud with her great-aunt--the wife of Britain's prime minister--to her own lonely childhood on the family estate
About: The novelist provides a memoir of her eccentric family, from her grandmother's feud with her great-aunt--the wife of Britain's prime minister--to her own lonely childhood on the family estate
Paperback
from New Directions (June 1, 2003)
9780811215305 | details & prices | 5.00 × 7.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $14.95
About: A delightful and elegant literary memoir about the Scottish novelist's eccentric family.
About: A delightful and elegant literary memoir about the Scottish novelist's eccentric family.
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