Pauline Holdstock
Autor de A Rare and Curious Gift: A Novel
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The Devil and the Deep 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1948
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- England (birth)
Canada - Lugar de nacimiento
- England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Ocupaciones
- essayist
historical novelist
lecturer - Organizaciones
- University of Victoria
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Miembros
- 120
- Popularidad
- #165,356
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 19
There is a feral girl stealing from local people in a village in France. They try to catch her, but she gets away and ends up another village over. A farmer(?) there, Peyre, is intrigued by her. Peyre tries to entice her to come, as he’d like to see if he can “tame” her. He sees his son, whom he’s lost a while back, in her.
This started off really slow and I wasn’t interested. Parts I didn’t like and just skimmed through were mostly Peyre’s background (though I eventually got the gist of at least what happened with his son and wife). It was only the last half or 1/3 of the book, which focused more on the girl, where I was a bit more interested in what was happening. The ending was open-ended, so I wasn’t a big fan not really knowing what had happened there.… (más)