| A Sea of Straw Contributor(s): Sutton, Julia (Author) |
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ISBN: 099328633X ISBN-13: 9780993286339 Publisher: Cheyne Walk OUR PRICE: $11.59 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2016 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.06" W x 7.81" (0.64 lbs) 294 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Will a man walk two thousand kilometres for a woman? In 1967, Zé will. Salazar's Portugal has become a prison for him. 1966: When Jody, young mother and designer from the north of England, arrives on the Lisbon coast, she brings the lure of 'Swinging London' to Portuguese painter Zé's existing dreams of freedom. A nascent love is interrupted when, back in England, husband Michael forces her to choose between their 2-year-old daughter Anna and Zé. And Zé, at home in Lisbon and grounded by the state's secret police, can only wait. For both Jody and Zé, love is revolution. And personal and political threads weave their story, a period piece set amid the then socially conservative North of England, the light and rugged landscapes of modern Portugal, and the darkness of the dying years of Europe's longest-running dictatorship. A Sea of Straw, with its pervading atmosphere of saudades, is a quest for love in revolutionary times. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sutton, Julia: - Julia Sutton is an artist and writer from East Anglia, who has lived and worked for much of her adult life in continental Europe. Following eleven years in Paris, she returned, in 1997, to her native Suffolk coast, where she now lives and writes full-time. A Sea Of Straw is her first novel. |