The house guest - Softcover

Anderson, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0864732880 ISBN 13: 9780864732880

Publisher: Victoria University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Anderson, Barbara

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From Library Journal:

The author of this British novel, first published in 1996, deserves a wider following. The story traces three young people who grow up more or less together in contemporary New Zealand. For the book's first half, we meet all the main characters and their parents, friends, and siblings, and sometimes it becomes a bit of a jumble. Robin, a university tutor, marries Lisa, 12 years his junior. Unfortunately, she dies, and he slowly resumes his life, becoming closer to Emmie, a childhood friend who is now an actress. The story picks up when Rob begins to study the life and work of a minor writer, Alice O'Leary, who had been a house guest of Emmie's guardian aunt when they were children. He discovers the secret of Emmie's birth while interviewing O'Leary's husband?an old plot device that Anderson (Portrait of the Artist's Wife, LJ 4/1/93) uses effectively here. The characters, while sometimes annoying, are memorably drawn. Highly recommended.?Barbara Maslekoff, Ohioana Lib., Columbus, Ohio
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About this edition

• Publisher: Victoria University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0864732880
• ISBN 13: 9780864732880
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312