Книга: Philomena (Sixsmith Martin); Pan Books, 2013

Inspiring the film starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan, and directed by Stephen Frears, Philomena is the tale of a mother and a son whose lives were scarred by the forces of hypocrisy on both sides of the Atlantic and of the secrets they were forced to keep.
With a foreword by Judi Dench, Martin Sixsmiths book is a compelling and deeply moving narrative of human love and loss, both heartbreaking yet ultimately redemptive.
When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea in Co. Tipperary to be looked after as a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the Church took him from her and sold him, like countless others, to America for adoption. Coerced into signing a document promising never to attempt to see her child again, she nonetheless spent the next fifty years secretly searching for him, unaware that he was searching for her from across the Atlantic.
Philomenas son, renamed Michael Hess, grew up to be a top Washington lawyer and a leading Republican official in the Reagan and Bush administrations. But he was a gay man in a homophobic party where he had to conceal not only his sexuality but, eventually, the fact that he had AIDS. With little time left, he returned to Ireland and the convent where he was born: his desperate quest to find his mother before he died left a legacy that was to unfold with unexpected consequences for all involved.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	978-1-44-724522-3
Автор(ы)	Sixsmith Martin
Вес	0.32
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Возрастные ограничения	12
Год издания	2013
Жанр	проза на иностранном языке
Издатель	Pan Books
Издательство	Pan Books
Кол-во страниц	452
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	452
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Переплет	Мягкий переплёт
Переплёт	мягкий
Раздел	Книги на английском языке
Размеры	13,00 см × 19,70 см × 2,70 см
Страниц	452
Тематика	Современная проза
Тип обложки	мягкая
Формат	130x197мм