Name: Make Room for the Jester
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Author: Philip Pullman
ISBN: 9781906998271

Type

Physical Book

Author

Stead Jones

Preface by

Philip Pullman

Publisher

Parthian

Year

2011

Language

English

Pages

300

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.1 x 13.5 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.27 kg.

ISBN

1906998272

ISBN13

9781906998271

Synopsis "Make Room for the Jester"

Sometimes compared to The Catcher in the Rye, this rediscovered novel of the 1960s has a similar haunting sense that the adult world is phony and threatening. The hero of the book, Ashton Vaughan, has come home after a long absence from his Welsh seaside town. A member of the notorious Vaughan family, he has become a hopeless alcoholic drifter, but he moves in with his brother, aloof and eccentric, who still lives in the family home. Slowly, as Ashton reaches out to his loyal friends in town, it becomes clear that a violent vendetta had forced him to run away from home.

Philip Pullman

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Norwich, Inglaterra. 19 de octubre de 1946. Estudió en el Exeter College de Oxford. Tras una novela de ciencia ficción publicada en 1978 decidió especializarse por fin en la novela infantil y juvenil mientras trabajaba para el Westminster College de Oxford.
Su primer gran éxito le llegó en 1995 con la publicación de La brújula dorada, primera parte de una serie de gran éxito en todo el mundo y que fue llevada al cine. A lo largo de su carrera, Pullman ha recibido numerosos premios, como la Carnegie Medal, el Premio Guardian de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil o el Memorial Astrid Lindgren.

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