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In the tumultuous spring of 1968 a young English woman, Rose, travels from London to the United States to meet a man she knows as Washington Harold. In her suitcase are a polka dot dress and a one-way ticket. In an America recently convulsed by the April assassination of Martin Luther King and subsequent urban riots, they begin a search for the charismatic and elusive Dr. Wheeler- sage, prophet and, possibly, redeemer-who rescued Rose from a dreadful childhood and against whom Harold holds a seething grudge.
As they follow their quarry cross-country in a camper they encounter the odd remnants of Wheeler acolytes who harbor festering cultural and political grievances. Along the way, a famous artist is shot in New York, mutilated soldiers are evacuated from Vietnam, race hatred explodes in ghettos and suburbs and casual madness blossoms at revival meetings.
Many believe America's only hope is presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, whose campaign trail echoes Rose and Harold's pilgrimage. Both will conclude in Los Angeles at the Ambassador Hotel one infamous night in June.
Subversive, sinister and marvelously vivid, Beryl Bainbridge's great last novel evokes a nation on the brink of self-destruction with artful brilliance.
As they follow their quarry cross-country in a camper they encounter the odd remnants of Wheeler acolytes who harbor festering cultural and political grievances. Along the way, a famous artist is shot in New York, mutilated soldiers are evacuated from Vietnam, race hatred explodes in ghettos and suburbs and casual madness blossoms at revival meetings.
Many believe America's only hope is presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, whose campaign trail echoes Rose and Harold's pilgrimage. Both will conclude in Los Angeles at the Ambassador Hotel one infamous night in June.
Subversive, sinister and marvelously vivid, Beryl Bainbridge's great last novel evokes a nation on the brink of self-destruction with artful brilliance.
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Beryl Bainbridge was the author of seventeen novels. The Dressmaker, The Bottle Factory Outing, An Awfully Big Adventure, Every Man For Himself and Master Georgie were all finalists for the Booker Prize, and Every Man For Himself won the Whitbread Novel of the Year Prize. The Guardian includes The Bottle Factory Outing on their list of the 100 Greatest Novels of All Time. An Awfully Big Adventure was adapted for a film starring Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman.
Beryl Bainbridge died in July 2010.
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Beryl Bainbridge died in July 2010.
"Maverick, unique and horribly funny." — Alison Flood, "The Guardian"
"A genuine original with a macabre imagination." — "The New York Review of Books"
"Maverick, unique and horribly funny."
"A genuine original with a macabre imagination."
"Maverick, unique and horribly funny."--Alison Flood, "The Guardian"
"Beryl Bainbridge''s novels are like elegant teacups that contain a st--Francine Prose, "The New York Times"
"Beryl Bainbridge's novels are like elegant teacups that contain a strong, dark, possibly sinister but remarkable brew. Models of compression, they show us how much can be poured into a deceptively delicate vessel." --Francine Prose, "The New York Times"
""The Girl In The Polk Dot Dress" is a superb and memorable work of fiction."--"The Guardian"
"One of the most distinctive and admired voices in postwar British fiction."--- William Grimes, "The New York Times"
"A genuine original with a macabre imagination."--"The New York Review of Books"
"A genuine original with a macabre imagination." — "The New York Review of Books"
"Maverick, unique and horribly funny."
"A genuine original with a macabre imagination."
"Maverick, unique and horribly funny."--Alison Flood, "The Guardian"
"Beryl Bainbridge''s novels are like elegant teacups that contain a st--Francine Prose, "The New York Times"
"Beryl Bainbridge's novels are like elegant teacups that contain a strong, dark, possibly sinister but remarkable brew. Models of compression, they show us how much can be poured into a deceptively delicate vessel." --Francine Prose, "The New York Times"
""The Girl In The Polk Dot Dress" is a superb and memorable work of fiction."--"The Guardian"
"One of the most distinctive and admired voices in postwar British fiction."--- William Grimes, "The New York Times"
"A genuine original with a macabre imagination."--"The New York Review of Books"
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