Sacred Country
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Author | Rose Tremain |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Publisher | Sinclair-Stevenson (UK) Scribner (US) |
Publication date | 1992 (UK), 1993 (US) |
Media type | Print, audio & eBook |
Pages | 320 |
ISBN | 1-85619-118-4 |
Sacred Country is a novel by English author Rose Tremain. It was published in 1992 by Sinclair-Stevenson[1] and won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize[2] and Prix Femina étranger.[3] It has been compared to Virginia Woolf's Orlando.[4]
Plot introduction[]
"At the age of six, Mary Ward, the child of a poor farming family in Suffolk, has a revelation: she isn't Mary, she's a boy. So begins Mary's heroic struggle to change gender, while around her others also strive to find a place of safety and fulfilment in a savage and confusing world".[5]
Reception[]
Positive review extracts on the back cover of the 2002 Vintage edition :
- "Hypnotic...Curiously beautiful and strikingly original" - Spectator
- "Brilliant...A strong, complex, unsentimental novel" - Times Literary Supplement
- "Rose Tremain writes comedy that can break your heart...Funny absorbing and quite original. I've read nothing to touch it this year" - Literary Review
Stephen Dobyns writes for the New York Times, "a book that makes us feel good about the state of fiction in an uncertain market"[6]
Novelist Lynn Freed observes "The writing... is sheer delight. It is skilled, intelligent storytelling at its best".[7]
Film adaptation[]
Filmmaker Jan Dunn has acquired the film rights to the novel and is adapting the screenplay.[8] Other sources state that Tremain herself is adapting it in three parts for television.[9]
References[]
- ^ http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/t/rose-tremain/sacred-country.htm Fantastic Fiction
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2011-12-01.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Previous winners - fiction | James Tait Black Prize winners | People - ^ http://www.prix-litteraires.net/prix/121,prix-femina-roman-etranger.html Prix Femina - Roman Etranger
- ^ http://books.simonandschuster.com/Sacred-Country/Rose-Tremain/9780671886097 Sacred Country | Book by Rose Tremain - Simon & Schuster
- ^ Back cover of 2002 Vintage edition
- ^ Muddling Through", Date: April 11, 1993, Sunday, Late Edition - Final
- ^ The Best Novels of the Nineties by Linda Parent Lesher, page 249, ISBN 0786407425
- ^ http://unitedagents.co.uk/jan-dunn Jan Dunn | United Agents
- ^ http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/features/musicsilence/ Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
External links[]
- Roots on the map Review from The Independent by Natasha Walter
- 1992 British novels
- Novels with transgender themes
- English novels
- British bildungsromans
- Novels set in Suffolk
- Sinclair-Stevenson books
- British LGBT novels
- 1990s LGBT novels
- 1990s novel stubs
- LGBT novel stubs
- 1990s young adult novel stubs
- Bildungsroman stubs