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Mourning Ruby
Mourning Ruby
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Published:
25 September, 2003
hardback
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Like a Russian doll, this is a novel of interlocking stories, each one opening to reveal another. It tells not only the story of the loss of a child and its effect on three people, but an account of a young girl's life in a brothel during WWI, the magical story of a circus acrobat, and the history of Stalin's first wife and her mysterious fate. Mourning Ruby is Helen Dunmore's most ambitious novel to date, hugely moving and strongly plotted, about memory, history - personal and public - about imagination, and ultimately about the most important relationship of all in any novel - that of the reader to the writer.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780670914494 |
| ISBN10 | 0670914495 |
| Number Of Pages | 320 |
| Item Weight | 601 g |
| Product Dimensions | 31 x 244 x 163 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Viking |
| Format | hardback |
| Edition | First Edition |
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Author's Bio
Helen Dunmore has published seven novels with Viking and Penguin: ZENNOR IN DARKNESS, which won the McKitterick Prize; BURNING BRIGHT; A SPELL OF WINTER, which won the Orange Prize; TALKING TO DEAD; YOUR BLUE-EYED BOY; WITH YOUR CROOKED HEART, and THE SIEGE, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002. She is also a poet, children's novelist and short-story writer. She lives in Bristol.