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The outcast / Sadie Jones.
Summary:
As menacing as it is beautiful, "The Outcast" is a devastating portrait of small-town hypocrisy from an astonishing new voice poised for international recognition. It's 1957 and Lewis Aldridge is travelling back to his home in the South of England.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307396662
- ISBN: 0307396665
- Physical Description: 347 p. ; 23 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, c2008.
Content descriptions
- Target Audience Note:
- All Ages.
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- Subject:
- Ex-convicts > Fiction.
Loss (Psychology) > Fiction.
Mothers and sons > Fiction.
England > Social life and customs > 1945 > Fiction. - Genre:
- Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Gibsons Public Library | FIC JONE (Text) | 30886000063244 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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As menacing as it is beautiful, The Outcast is a devastating portrait of small-town hypocrisy from an astonishing new voice poised for international recognition.
Itâs 1957 and Lewis Aldridge is travelling back to his home in the South of England. He is straight out of jail and nineteen years old. His return will trigger the implosion not just of his family, but of a whole community.
A decade earlier, his fatherâs homecoming casts a different shape. The war is over and Gilbert reverts easily to suburban life â cocktails at six-thirty, church on Sundays â but his wife and young son resist the stuffy routine. Lewis and his mother escape to the woods for picnics, just as they did in wartime days. Nobody is surprised that Gilbertâs wife counters convention, but they are all shocked when, after one of their jaunts, Lewis comes back without her.
Not far away, Kit Carmichael keeps watch. She has always understood more than most, not least from what she is dealt by her own fatherâs hand. Lewisâs grief and burgeoning rage are all too plain, and Kit makes a private vow to help. But in her attempts to set them both free, she fails to predict the painful and horrifying secrets that must first be forced into the open.
The Outcast is an unforgettable story of transgression and redemption from a powerful new writer.