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Sacred Country

Sacred Country Paperback - 1995

by Tremain, Rose

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1952: Mary Ward, age six, realizes that her true identity is that of a boy. Mary's fight to become Martin, society's hypocrisy, and an abundance of left-of-center characters are the core of this remarkable novel--"a stunning achievement . . . intricate and rewarding fiction" (Robert E. Hosmer, Jr., The Boston Sunday Globe).

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Atria Books, 1995. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Sacred Country
  • Author Tremain, Rose
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st WSP Tr Ppbk
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Atria Books, NY
  • Date 1995
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0671886096I3N00
  • ISBN 9780671886097 / 0671886096
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 5 x 8 x 0.7 in (12.70 x 20.32 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1950's
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
    • Chronological Period: 1970's
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

From the rear cover

"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.

Media reviews

Citations

  • New York Times, 05/23/1999, Page 36

About the author

Rose Tremain is the author of seven novels, including the bestselling Restoration, which received the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award in 1989, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and was made into an Academy Award(R)-winning film in 1995. Sacred Country won both the James Tait Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina Etranger in France. Ms. Tremain lives in London and Norwich, England.