Francis Spufford - Wikipedia
网页Francis Spufford FRSL (born 1964) [citation needed] is an English author and teacher of writing whose career has shifted gradually from non-fiction to fiction. His first novel Golden Hill received critical acclaim and numerous prizes including the Costa Book Award for a first novel, [1] the Desmond Elliott Prize [2] and the Ondaatje Prize. [3]
Book Review: ‘Cahokia Jazz,’ by Francis Spufford - The New York Times
网页2024年2月6日 · In Francis Spufford’s new novel, “Cahokia Jazz,” a detective must solve the mystery of a staged killing before its repercussions destroy his city’s social and political order.
Writer Francis Spufford: ‘I’m a sucker for a redemptive arc’
网页2023年12月22日 · It’s an atmospheric, twisty crime novel with layer upon layer of intrigue; in a counterfactual 1922 America, a pianist-turned-detective embarks on a murder case that complicates with each...
Francis Spufford’s New Novel Imagines Lives That Might Have Been
网页2021年5月18日 · The wreckage of a London Woolworth’s destroyed by a German V-2 rocket in 1944, killing 168 people. In “Light Perpetual,” Francis Spufford imagines how the lives of five children might have ...
Golden Hill (novel) - Wikipedia
网页Golden Hill is a 2016 novel by the English writer Francis Spufford. It won the Costa Book Award for a first novel, [1] and the Ondaatje Prize. [2] As explained in its acknowledgements, it is heavily influenced by The Adventures of David Simple by Sarah Fielding and Joseph Andrews by her brother Henry Fielding. [3]
'Light Perpetual' Review: Francis Spufford Writes Lives Of Young …
网页2021年6月22日 · In 1944 an attack on a London Woolworths killed 168 people. In his new novel, Francis Spufford explores what "might have been" for five young casualties of war.
Francis Spufford (Author of Golden Hill) - Goodreads
网页2024年4月4日 · Francis Spufford. Goodreads Author. Born. in Cambridge, The United Kingdom. Genre. Nonfiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction. Member Since. July 2016. edit data. Spufford began as a writer of non-fiction, though always with a strong element of story-telling. Among his early books are I May Be Some Time, The Child That Books Built, and Backroom Boys.
An Interview with Francis Spufford | Commonweal Magazine
网页2017年6月28日 · Spufford inhabits his chosen century to the hilt. The prose often reads like Fielding, and the story centers on many of the period’s most vexing and vexed issues: the relation between crown and colony; commerce and its relation to slavery; slavery and its relation to justice.
Light Perpetual: A Novel - amazon.com
网页2021年5月18日 · Light Perpetual: A Novel. Hardcover – May 18, 2021. From the critically acclaimed and award‑winning author of Golden Hill, an “extraordinary…symphonic…casually stunning” (The Wall Street Journal) novel tracing the infinite possibilities of five lives in the bustling neighborhoods of 20th-century London.
Francis Spufford | The Booker Prizes
网页Francis Spufford is the author of five highly praised works of non-fiction, most frequently described by reviewers as either ‘bizarre’ or ‘brilliant’, and usually as both. His debut novel Golden Hill won the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Desmond Elliot Prize and was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for ...
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