James Tait Black Memorial Prizes
Justine (A Virago V)
Book Information
- Publisher
- Virago Press Ltd
- Published
- 1997-04-10
- Pages
- 144 pages
- Language
- 英語
- ISBN-13
- 9781860493065
- ISBN-10
- 1860493068
- Price
- 3018 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Literary
The tale of a man's obsession with a woman, or is it two women? Justine has a twin sister, and the narrator is increasingly unsure as to the real identity of the woman he desires. Alluding to the Marquis de Sade's work of the same name, the novel explores the line between imagination and reality.
Alice Thompson was born and brought up in Edinburgh. She read English at Oxford and then toured the world in the pop group, The Woodentops. Her novella, KILLING TIME, was published by Penguin in 1991. In 1995 she completed a PhD on Henry James and became Writer in Residence for Shetland. She is now writer in residence for St Andrew's University.