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THE PHOTOGRAPH

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PUFFIN
Año de edición:
2019
Materia
English readings
ISBN:
978-0-241-98648-6
Páginas:
240
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A gorgeous novel by the Booker-winning author, now a Penguin Essentialu003cbru003e u003cbru003e Searching through a little-used cupboard at home, Glyn Peters chances upon a photograph he has never seen before. Taken in high summer, many years earlier, it shows his wife, Kath, holding hands with another man.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e Glyn's work as a historian should have inured him to unexpected findings and reversals, but he is ill-prepared for this radical shift in perception. His mind fills with questions. Who was the man? Who took the photograph? Where was it taken? When? Had Kath planned for him to find out all along?u003cbru003e u003cbru003e As Glyn begins to search for answers, he, and those around him, find the certainties of the past and present slip away, and the picture of the beautiful woman they all thought they knew distort.

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