by Margaret Drabble · Penguin Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140029338
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«Jerusalem the Golden» is the literary novel by Margaret Drabble, published by Penguin Books Ltd in paperback (208 pages, in English).
Clara, a young woman from the north of England, breaks with the oppressive respectability of her home to move to London in the sixties. Through her friendship with Celia Denham she enters a circle of cultured people and wealthy bohemians, a world she longs to belong to; a story about class, ambition and the search for identity.
The novel «Jerusalem the Golden», originally published in 1967, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
A read for those who enjoy British literary fiction and portraits of class and ambition.
Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd is an English biographer, novelist and short story writer.
