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Sacred Country

by Rose Tremain

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"I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy."

Mary's fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate, emotional yet unsentimental novel. As daring as Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Sacred Country inspires us to reconsider the essence of gender, and proposes new insights in the unraveling of that timeless malady known as the human condition. As Mary's mother, Estelle, observes, "There are no whole truths, just as there is no heart of the onion. There are only the dreams of the individual mind."

Sweeping us through three decades, from the repressive English countryside of the fifties to the swinging London of the sixties to the rhinestone tackiness of seventies America, Rose Tremain unmasks the "sacred country" within us all.

Review:

"A beautiful, knowing novel about isolation and loneliness." New Yorker

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"An extraordinary novel...spare, pointed [and] extremely moving." The Wall Street Journal

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"A book that we give to our friends and are glad to have read....Tremain gives us a precisely imagined landscape and...characters that we come to care deeply about." The New York Times Book Review

Review:

"A stunning achievement." The Boston Sunday Globe

Review:

"Sacred Country is...about the unexpected and its pleasures, the thrill of rounding a corner and finding something is not at all what you thought, even when that something is yourself...brilliant." The Village Voice Literary Supplement

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About the Author

Rose Tremain's books have won many prizes including the Whitbread Novel of the Year, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Prix Femina Etranger, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Angel Literary Award and the Sunday Express Book of the Year.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780671886097

Author:

Tremain, Rose

Publisher:

Washington Square Press

Location:

New York

Subject:

General

Subject:

Fiction

Subject:

England

Subject:

Psychological

Subject:

Sex change

Subject:

Domestic fiction

Subject:

Domestic fiction, English.

Subject:

General Fiction

Subject:

General Fiction

Subject:

Literature-A to Z

Copyright:

1995

Edition Description:

B102

Series Volume:

no. 445

Publication Date:

June 1995

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Pages:

336

Dimensions:

8.25 x 5.31 in 13.65 oz

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Product details 336 pages Washington Square Press - 1999-08-02 English 9780671886097 Reviews:

"Review" by New Yorker, "A beautiful, knowing novel about isolation and loneliness."

"Review" by The Wall Street Journal, "An extraordinary novel...spare, pointed [and] extremely moving."

"Review" by The New York Times Book Review, "A book that we give to our friends and are glad to have read....Tremain gives us a precisely imagined landscape and...characters that we come to care deeply about."

"Review" by The Boston Sunday Globe, "A stunning achievement."

"Review" by The Village Voice Literary Supplement, "Sacred Country is...about the unexpected and its pleasures, the thrill of rounding a corner and finding something is not at all what you thought, even when that something is yourself...brilliant."