Bibliograph

Sacred country, a novel, Rose Tremain

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Sacred country, a novel, Rose Tremain

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Sacred country

Oclc number

32830486

Responsibility statement

Rose Tremain

Sub title

a novel

Summary

"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

Table Of Contents

-- 1952 -- The Two-Minute Silence -- The Beautiful Baby Contest -- Mary -- The Blue Yodeller -- 1954 -- In Harker's Cellar -- Livia's Dictionary -- Mary -- 1955 -- "The Last Loomis" -- Estelle -- "Light, Light" -- 1957 -- Mary -- Oh, Sandra -- In the Surgery -- Unbaptised Children -- 1958 -- Estelle -- Mary -- The Good Man -- Magic Boxes -- 1961 -- A Storm -- Timmy's Angle (1) -- The Forest of Long Ago -- 1962 -- The Hired Man -- Mary -- In One Place -- 1963 -- Estelle -- Calculus -- Mary -- 1964 -- Marshall Street -- One Sunday -- What Is There? -- Mary -- 1966 -- "Far from Crep" -- Estelle -- A Nose for It -- 1967 -- Mary -- The Sorrow Party -- Timmy's Angle (2) -- Something Different -- 1968 -- Revolution and Revelation -- Caesar, Waiting -- 1970 -- Estelle -- Mary -- Facing West -- 1971 -- As Far As It Goes -- Forms of Address -- Mary -- 1972 -- Transillumination -- Back in '39 -- Corpus Debile -- Mary -- 1973 -- Doodle-ei-dip -- Mary -- Estelle -- 1974 -- Hallowed Ground -- Heartless River -- 1975 -- Martin -- 1976 -- Martin -- 1980 -- Estelle

Target audience

adult

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