It leaves its traces in the air long after you've put it away." - The New York Times Book Review.Ĭondition: Como nuevo. "It pulls us in it engages us and saddens us. This is one of the best novels I have read for years." - The London Sunday Telegraph. The all too brief encounter between Claudia and Tom will surely rate as one of the most memorable of contemporary fictional affairs. "Emotionally, Moon Tiger is kaleidoscopic, deeply satisfying. At its center - forever frozen in time, the still point of her turning world - is the cruelly truncated affair with Tom, a British tank commander whom Claudia knew as a reporter in Egypt during World War II." - from the rear outer cover. Instead, Moon Tiger is her own history, the life of a strong, independent woman, with its often contentious relations with family and friends. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. "The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospital bed. "A powerful, moving and beautifully wrought novel about the ways in which lives are molded by personal memory and the collective past." - Boston Globe. Includes List of Other Books by Penelope Lively and Acknowledgments. New condition color illustrated softcover wraps. Tedesco, Michael (cover illustration Woods, Rue (cover design) Woods, Eric (cover design) (illustrator).
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