The Broken Places

The Broken Places

Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction | Paperback Published on: 20/06/2024
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Synopsis

'Sunlit and dark, painful and joyous' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas

In 1931, Gregory Hemingway's life begins in Kansas City, Missouri. The third and favourite child of an overbearing father, Greg is a paragon: a star athlete, a crack shot, bright and handsome and built like a pocket battleship.

In 2001, Gloria Hemingway's life ends in a Miami women's correctional institution. Complex and contradictory, radiant and resilient, it is a life that has flourished against the odds and been lived to the full.

Inspired by true events and spanning seventy years of the last century, this is the story of a miraculous existence, told with beauty and compassion. Transporting the reader back and forth in time, from Cuba to New York and Montana to Florida, The Broken Places explores what it means to grow up in the shadow of a man famous for his masculinity, to bear the weight of expectation and a tragic family legacy, and to finally step out into the light.

  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • ISBN: 9781399602310
  • Number of pages: 400
  • Weight: 280g
  • Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 32 mm

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The Broken Places
Hugely moving and beautifully written
This was a story I knew nothing about and Russell Franklin tells it beautifully. This book had me in tears within a couple of chapters and immersed in the ... READ MORE
Myfanwy  Marshall
The Broken Places
Novel set across 20th Century USA and CUBA
The Broken Places is a fascinating fictional treatment of the life of Gregory Hemingway, also known as Gloria, the youngest child of the Nobel Prize-winnin... READ MORE
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