The Facts Of Life
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the smouldering backdrop of post-war England, Patrick Gale's The Facts of Life chronicles the intertwined destinies of four generations of a fractured family, beginning with a Jewish refugee musician who escapes Nazi Germany and finds an uneasy sanctuary in the English countryside. At its heart is a delicate, searching story of Edward, a young man caught between artistic ambition and the weight of inherited trauma, navigating a world still scarred by the upheavals of the twentieth century. Gale constructs his narrative with the precision of a chamber composer, each character's voice a distinct instrument contributing to a resonant, emotionally complex whole. Rich with themes of identity, sexuality, belonging, and the way history inscribes itself upon the lives of ordinary people, The Facts of Life stands as one of Gale's most accomplished and ambitious works. His prose is at once lyrical and precise, wielding quiet compassion to illuminate the private struggles that history rarely records. Readers who finish the final page will find themselves wondering which inherited truths — and which inherited silences — have quietly shaped their own lives.
Author: Patrick Gale
Format: Paperback
Published: 1995, Flamingo
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the smouldering backdrop of post-war England, Patrick Gale's The Facts of Life chronicles the intertwined destinies of four generations of a fractured family, beginning with a Jewish refugee musician who escapes Nazi Germany and finds an uneasy sanctuary in the English countryside. At its heart is a delicate, searching story of Edward, a young man caught between artistic ambition and the weight of inherited trauma, navigating a world still scarred by the upheavals of the twentieth century. Gale constructs his narrative with the precision of a chamber composer, each character's voice a distinct instrument contributing to a resonant, emotionally complex whole. Rich with themes of identity, sexuality, belonging, and the way history inscribes itself upon the lives of ordinary people, The Facts of Life stands as one of Gale's most accomplished and ambitious works. His prose is at once lyrical and precise, wielding quiet compassion to illuminate the private struggles that history rarely records. Readers who finish the final page will find themselves wondering which inherited truths — and which inherited silences — have quietly shaped their own lives.