The spellbinding story of Lady Chatterley's Lover,and the society that put it on trial; the story of a novel and its ripple effects across half a century,and about the transformative and triumphant power of fiction itself.
D. H. Lawrence is dying. Exiled in the Mediterranean,he dreams of the past. There are the years early in his marriage during the war,where his desperation drives him to commit a terrible betrayal. And there is a woman in an Italian courtyard,her chestnut hair red with summer.
Jacqueline and her husband have already been marked out for greatness. Passing through New York,she slips into a hearing where a book,not a man,is brought to trial. A young woman and a young man meet amid the restricted section of a famous library,and make love. Scattered and blown by the winds of history,their stories are bound together,and brought before the jury. On both sides of the Atlantic,society is asking,and continues to ask: is it obscenity - or is it tenderness
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781408884645Number of pages: 640Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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'Alison MacLeod has conjured a hugely daring,intrigue-packed,decade-jumping doorstopper that teasingly blends fiction and actuality with wit and panache'- Daily Mail
'It's an ambitious sprawl of a book,splendidly extreme in its magnitude,yet always elegant; a defence of complicated thinking and embodied life'- Guardian
'What a triumph of skill and imagination is this powerful,moving,brilliant novel! I've never read anything quite like Tenderness,and I doubt I ever will again. This is more than a book about a book; this is a book about living - about really living,at the most dangerous and beautiful edges of the human experience. I stand in awe of Alison MacLeod. She is a novelist operating at the peak of her powers... Tenderness is an utterly captivating read,and I came away from it with this astonished thought: There's nothing this writer can't do'- Elizabeth Gilbert
'Tenderness is a triumph and it will conquer your heart. Stunning,illuminating,but also,profoundly moving'- Elif Shafak
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