by Beryl Bainbridge · Las Provincias · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788447309719
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«Una insólita aventura» is the novel by Beryl Bainbridge, published by Las Provincias in paperback (207 pages, in Spanish).
In 1950s Liverpool, Stella, a fifteen-year-old girl, joins a company rehearsing Peter Pan as assistant to the stage director, fleeing her family life. Stella, fascinated by the director Meredith Potter, becomes caught up in a charged atmosphere that grows complicated with the arrival of P.L. O'Hara, chosen to play Captain Hook.
This is a 1995 edition, part of the «Cine para leer» collection (no. 23), with a translation by Margarita Cavandoli. The original work is «An Awfully Big Adventure».
It is suitable for readers of British fiction and coming-of-age novels with a theatrical backdrop.
Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge was an English writer. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class. She won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996, and was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. She was described in 2007 as a national treasure. In 2008, The Times named Bainbridge on their list of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945".
