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Swimming with Horses
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8,49 € |
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| Verlag: | Dundurn |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 09.02.2019 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781459743564 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 368 |
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Beschreibungen
<b>An unlikely friendship between a Canadian teenager and a South African girl sparks a journey to untangle an unsolved murder.</b>
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<br> Eighteen-year-old Hilary Anson’s startling good looks and wanton ways scandalize the denizens of sleepy Kelso County, but young Sam Mitchell is instantly enthralled by his new friend. Over one sun-soaked summer, Hilary vastly improves Sam’s equestrian skills, while dropping inscrutable details about her past in apartheid-era South Africa. Mysteries mount until Hilary vanishes, leaving at least one unsolved murder in her wake. Many years and two failed marriages later, Sam sets out for South Africa, determined to crack the enigma of Hilary Anson. In doing so, he finds himself confronting a shocking secret of his own.
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<br> Eighteen-year-old Hilary Anson’s startling good looks and wanton ways scandalize the denizens of sleepy Kelso County, but young Sam Mitchell is instantly enthralled by his new friend. Over one sun-soaked summer, Hilary vastly improves Sam’s equestrian skills, while dropping inscrutable details about her past in apartheid-era South Africa. Mysteries mount until Hilary vanishes, leaving at least one unsolved murder in her wake. Many years and two failed marriages later, Sam sets out for South Africa, determined to crack the enigma of Hilary Anson. In doing so, he finds himself confronting a shocking secret of his own.
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A whodunnit on horseback,
<i>Swimming with Horses</i> blends equestrian sports, teenage nostalgia, political tensions in new and old South Africa, and a modern take on Canadian identity, all rolled into a taut literary thriller.
<i>Swimming with Horses</i> blends equestrian sports, teenage nostalgia, political tensions in new and old South Africa, and a modern take on Canadian identity, all rolled into a taut literary thriller.
Oakland Ross has written two previous novels, a travel memoir, and a short story collection. He worked as a foreign correspondent for several years and received two National Newspaper Awards and a National Magazine Award for fiction. Oakland lives in Toronto.
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<li>A literary thriller and coming-of-age story: A twice-divorced man reopens a mystery involving a girl he knew as a teenager, who disappeared and left an unsolved murder in her wake</li>
<li>Straddles the often-insulated world of small-town Canada and the explosive field of South African politics</li>
<li>Explores themes of buried secrets and how notorious international events sometimes point back to skeletons in our own closets</li>
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<li>A literary thriller and coming-of-age story: A twice-divorced man reopens a mystery involving a girl he knew as a teenager, who disappeared and left an unsolved murder in her wake</li>
<li>Straddles the often-insulated world of small-town Canada and the explosive field of South African politics</li>
<li>Explores themes of buried secrets and how notorious international events sometimes point back to skeletons in our own closets</li>
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