Actress

R$ 82,90

Sinopse

‘Written with all the ingenuity and twisty tautness of a thriller’ The TimesFrom the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter’s search to understand her mother’s hidden truths.This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O’Dell, as told by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London’s West End. Katherine’s life is a grand performance, with young Norah watching from the wings.But this romance between mother and daughter cannot survive Katherine’s past, or the world’s damage. As Norah uncovers her mother’s secrets, she acquires a few of her own. Then, fame turns to infamy when Katherine decides to commit a bizarre crime.Actress is about a daughter’s search for the truth: the dark secret in the bright star, and what drove Katherine finally mad . . .

Participantes

Autor: Anne Enright

Autor

ANNE ENRIGHT

Derrotando favoritos como Ian McEwan, Anne Enright (1962, Dublin, Irlanda) arrematou o Man Booker Prize de 2007 com o romance O encontro, um mergulho no passado de uma família disfuncional. Atualmente crítica de literatura do Guardian, teve seus textos publicados nas revistas New Yorker, Granta e London Review of Books. Os recônditos da vida familiar, tema central de suas obras, são explorados em linguagem inventiva. A reunião de contos Yesterday’s weather foi incluída pelo crítico James Wood em sua lista dos dez melhores livros de 2008.