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Item Details
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THE DARKNESS OF WALLIS SIMPSON
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| By: |
Rose Tremain |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£14.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1860560326 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781860560323 |
| Publisher: |
OCTOPUS PUBLISHING GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
20 October, 2005 |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
Wallis Simpson, for whom Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, ended her life as the prisoner of her lawyer who would not allow anyone visit her in her Paris flat. This novel takes this true story and transforms it into an imaginative and ironic fiction. The other stories in this collection range over a variety of themes, equally original and unexpected. |
| Synopsis: |
Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman for whom Edward Vlll abdicated in 1936, ended her life (as the Duchess of Windsor) as the prisoner of her lawyer who would not allow anyone - friend, foe or journalist - to visit her in her Paris flat. Rose Tremain takes this true story and transforms it into an imaginative and ironic fiction. Her thesis is that Wallis, gaga and bed-ridden, has forgotten the king who gave up an empire for love of her. This superb story plays with the selectiveness of memory: why does Wallis recall the seemingly unimportant, while forgetting the glory days of her notoriety? She can remember her first two husbands - one a bit of a brute, the other very boring - but not the world-famous third one. The other stories in this magnificent collection range over a variety of themes, equally original and unexpected. An East German border guard, redundant after the Berlin Wall comes down in 1989, imagines that he might still have a purpose inlife: he tries to reach Russia by bicycling across the hostile wastes of Poland. A jilted man gets his revenge. A baby grows wings. Acharacter in an Impressionist painting escapes from his 'frame' - or does he?And there's a Christmas story set in a seedy hotel - |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Woman's Weekly |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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