According to Mark
Author: Lively, Penelope
ISBN: 9780141196831
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 11 Jan 2012
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
Lively's Booker-shortlisted novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics
A respected literary biographer, Mark is working on the life of Gilbert Strong - a writer about whom he thinks he knows everything. Happily married, and apparently dedicated to a life of letters, he nevertheless falls in love with Strong's granddaughter Carrie, a vague and unsophisticated young woman more interested in bedding plants than books or passion. As Mark's obsessions develop over a hot, complicated summer, he begins to understand that nothing is ever what it seems; not Gilbert Strong, and certainly not himself.
According to Mark is a witty and moving look at love, literature and the dangers of middle-aged folly.
ISBN: 9780141196831
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 11 Jan 2012
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
Lively's Booker-shortlisted novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics
A respected literary biographer, Mark is working on the life of Gilbert Strong - a writer about whom he thinks he knows everything. Happily married, and apparently dedicated to a life of letters, he nevertheless falls in love with Strong's granddaughter Carrie, a vague and unsophisticated young woman more interested in bedding plants than books or passion. As Mark's obsessions develop over a hot, complicated summer, he begins to understand that nothing is ever what it seems; not Gilbert Strong, and certainly not himself.
According to Mark is a witty and moving look at love, literature and the dangers of middle-aged folly.
