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The Girl In The Polka Dot Dress
Beryl Bainbridge
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Description for The Girl In The Polka Dot Dress
Paperback. * The new and last Beryl Bainbridge is a double murder mystery and a bittersweet masterpiece of the kind with which she has made her reputation Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 194.
In the summer of 1968, Rose sets off for the United States from Kentish Town; in her suitcase a polka-dot dress and a one-way ticket. Together with the sinister man known only as Washington Harold, she goes in search of the charismatic and elusive Dr Wheeler - the man Rose credits with rescuing her from a terrible childhood, and against whom Harold nurses a silent grudge.
As the odd couple journey across an America on the brink of paranoid disintegration, their journey mirrors that of Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign. As they draw ever closer to the elusive Dr Wheeler, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Abacus
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349121468
SKU
9780349121468
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Beryl Bainbridge
Beryl Bainbridge wrote seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television, she was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and won literary awards including the Whitbread Prize and the Author of the Year Award at the British Book Awards. She died in July 2010.
Reviews for The Girl In The Polka Dot Dress
Ranks among the finest of Bainbridge's fine works of fiction . . . Sombre, terrifying and hilarious
Paul Bailey
Independent
A tour de force . . . the comedy is marvellously black
Mark Bostridge
Financial Times
The Girl in the Polka-dot Dress is very gripping, very funny and deeply mysterious . . . Washington ... Read more
Paul Bailey
Independent
A tour de force . . . the comedy is marvellously black
Mark Bostridge
Financial Times
The Girl in the Polka-dot Dress is very gripping, very funny and deeply mysterious . . . Washington ... Read more