An Awfully Big Adventure

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<p><b>“Pinteresque menace and Sparkian malice . . . A former actress herself, Ms. Bainbridge chronicles the backstage antics of her fictional theater company with knowing aplomb.” —Michiko Kakutani, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b></p><p><b>A blackly comic story of the secrets, sex, and violence behind the curtain of a repertory theater’s postwar production of <i>Peter Pan</i>: its “close observation and hilarity are underlain by a sense of tragedy as deep as any in fiction.” (<i>The Times</i>)</b></p><p>Liverpool, 1950. Against the grimy backdrop of the gray postwar city, a shabby, scandal-steeped repertory theater company rehearses for their Christmas performance of Peter Pan. Treading the boards for the first time is sixteen-year-old Stella Bradshaw, ambitious, idealistic, and still overwhelmingly innocent. She falls hard for the rakish, monocled director, Meredith Potter, but, unable to attract his attentions—and not understanding why he’s spending quite so much time with their male colleagues—she turns to another colleague to initiate her into the ways of love. Enter the celebrated P. L. O’Hara, a dashing leading man who’s nursing secrets of his own. When the curtain is up, fantastical entertainment abounds, but backstage a very different drama is playing out: a pitch-black comedy of indiscretion, intrigue, and eventual tragedy.</p><p>Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and dusted with that magical “air of Pinteresque menace and Sparkian malice [that] lingers around the margins of [all of Beryl Bainbridge’s] fiction,” (Michiko Kakutani, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i>), <i>An Awfully Big Adventure</i> is one of the author’s very best—and best-loved—novels.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781961341920

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

215 x 126 x 18 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

McNally Editions