Overview
A respected literary biographer, Mark is working on the life of Gilbert Strong - a writer about whom he thinks he knows everything. Happily married, and apparently dedicated to a life of letters, he nevertheless falls in love with Strong's granddaughter Carrie, an unsophisticated young woman more interested in bedding plants than books or passion.
A respected literary biographer, Mark is working on the life of Gilbert Strong - a writer about whom he thinks he knows everything. Happily married, and apparently dedicated to a life of letters, he nevertheless falls in love with Strong''s granddaughter Carrie, a vague and unsophisticated young woman more interested in bedding plants than books or passion. As Mark''s obsessions develop over a hot, complicated summer, he begins to understand that nothing is ever what it seems; not Gilbert Strong, and certainly not himself.
According to Mark is a witty and moving look at love, literature and the dangers of middle-aged folly.
- | Author: Penelope Lively
- | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- | Publication Date: Nov 03, 2011
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780141196831
- | ISBN-10: 0141196831