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Upstairs at the Party

Pocket
Engelsk
Upstairs at the Party
Upstairs at the Party
  • Forfatter: Linda Grant
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 320
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • EAN: 9781844087518
  • Utgivelsesår: 2015
  • Bidragsyter: Grant, Linda
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''If you go back and look at your life there are certain scenes, acts, or maybe just incidents on which everything that follows seems to depend. If only you could narrate them, then you might be understood. I mean the part of yourself that you don''t know how to explain.''

In the early seventies, a glamorous and androgynous couple known as Evie/Stevie appear out of nowhere on the isolated concrete campus of a new university. To a group of teenagers experimenting with radical ideas, they seem blown back from the future, unsettling everything and uncovering covert desires. But their mesmerising flamboyant self-expression hides deep anxieties and hidden histories.

For Adele, who also has something to conceal, Evie becomes an obsession - an obsession which becomes lifelong after the night of Adele''s twentieth birthday party. What happened that evening and who was complicit are questions that have haunted Adele ever since. A set of school exercise books might reveal ever