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Бетан Робертс — об авторе
- Родилась: Абингдон, Великобритания
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Биография — Бетан Робертс
Bethan Roberts was born in Abingdon. Her first novel The Pools was published in 2007 and won a Jerwood/Arvon Young Writers’ Award. Her second novel The Good Plain Cook, published in 2008, was serialized on BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime and was chosen as one of Time Out’s books of the year. My Policeman, the story of a 1950s policeman, his wife,…
and his male lover, followed in 2012, and was chosen as that year’s City Read for Brighton. Mother Island (2014) was the recipient of a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered prize. She also writes short fiction (she has won the Society of Authors’ Olive Cook Prize and the RA Pin Drop Award), and drama for BBC Radio 4. Her new novel, Graceland, which tells the story of Elvis Presley and his mother, will be published by Chatto in 2019. Bethan has worked in television documentary, and has taught Creative Writing at Chichester University and Goldsmiths College, London. She lives in Brighton with her family.
Книги
6Библиография
2010 - The Pools
2010 - The Good Plain Cook
2012 - My Policeman
2014 - Mother Island
2019 - Graceland
2019- Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet: Form, Place and Tradition in the Late Eighteenth Century
2021 - Nightingale
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Автор мастерски передает атмосферу времени, в котором главные герои вынуждены скрывать свои истинные чувства и жить в тени общественных норм.
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1. Робертс создает многослойных героев,…
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– Как ты это делаешь? – Что делаю? – Живешь… такой жизнью? – О, – сказал я, – это.
– У меня нет особого выбора. Полагаю, я просто бегаю трусцой… – начал я. – С годами люди учатся…Я замолчал. Чему учатся? Бояться всех незнакомцев…