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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
- Jazyk
- Rok vydania
- 2013
- Väzba
- (mäkká),
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- Cena
- 14,99 €
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- Titul
- The Virgin and the Whale
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Carl Nixon
- Vydavateľ
- Random House New Zealand
- Rok vydania
- 2013
- Väzba
- mäkká
- Počet strán
- 264
- ISBN10
- 1775533751
- ISBN13
- 9781775533757
- Série
- Kategórie
- Štítky
- Hodnotenie
- 4,8 z 5
- Anotácia
- 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.