Margot Livesey
Autor von The Flight of Gemma Hardy
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Margot Livesey is the award-winning author of a story collection, Learning by Heart, and the novels Homework, Criminals, and The Missing World. Born in Scotland, she currently lives and teaches in the Boston area. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Werke von Margot Livesey
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Die privaten Memoiren und Bekenntnisse eines gerechtfertigten Sünders (1824) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben — 2,389 Exemplare
The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them (2006) — Mitwirkender — 387 Exemplare
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen (2009) — Mitwirkender — 364 Exemplare
Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives (2009) — Mitwirkender — 67 Exemplare
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Livesey, Margot
- Geburtstag
- 1953
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- UK
- Geburtsort
- Scotland, UK
- Wohnorte
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
London, England, UK - Ausbildung
- University of York (BA, English)
- Berufe
- professor (Writing)
novelist - Organisationen
- Boston University
Bowdoin College ((writer-in-residence)
Brandeis University
Carnegie Mellon University
Cleveland State University
Emerson College (Zeige alle 11)
University of Iowa (Writers' Workshop)
Tufts University
University of California, Irvine
Warren Wilson College
Williams College - Agent
- Amanda Urban (ICM)
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Beautifully written, with a rich setting - farm, village, and city - and characters. In retrospect, much might have been different if Lizzie had known a bit more about human biology and societal norms, and if Rab hadn't been so inflexible and unforgiving.
See also: Maggie O'Farrell
Quotes
Should a person's life depend on a thin chain of coincidences? (22)
Lizzie repeated what Hugh used to say: heaven was a way to make poor people behave. If they believed in the rewards of the afterlife, they wouldn't complain about this one. (55)
No one but Hugh had ever spoken as if her life were one thing and could, perhaps, be another. (73)
She had wanted to be a good girl, she still did, but there were other things she wanted more. (84)
He talked on, trying to convince her, but all she heard was that his life would continue running along the rails, while hers hurtled toward ruin. (117)
The letter weighed less than a handful of corn, yet to send it would change everything....I'm just knocking at the door, she told herself. I don't have to open it. (141)
"I'd give anything not to have left, but what can I do now?" (185)
"I don't blame you, but don't promise something you can't do." (Kate to Lizzie, 187)… (mehr)