Julian Gloag
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Werken van Julian Gloag
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- Geboortedatum
- 1930-07-02
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- UK
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- 15
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- 143
- Populariteit
- #144,062
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- 3.7
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- 4
- ISBNs
- 41
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- 1
But outsiders are never far away: a teacher, a runaway child, a nosy "char"...and a one-time boyfriend of Mother (the children's recollections of her hymn-singing and virtue don't seem to be the whole picture.) And then Hubert, finding a letter from Mother's long lost husband, writes imploring him to return...
The childen are very individually drawn, but they remained pretty weird and unknowable. It's quite a compelling tale, but seemed to lack that human touch, and came to a sudden and rather unsatisfying end.
Ian McEwan's "The Cement Garden" has a very similar theme and he was, I read, accused of plagiarising Gloag's work.… (meer)