词条 | The White Family |
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| name = The White Family | image = File:TheWhiteFamily.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Maggie Gee | illustrator = | cover_artist = Robert Taylor | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = | genre = | publisher = Saqi Books | release_date = 2002 | media_type = Print | pages = 416 | isbn = 0-86356-380-5 | dewey = | congress = | oclc = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}The White Family is a novel by English author Maggie Gee, published in 2002 in London by Saqi Books. It was shortlisted for both the 2003 Orange Prize[1] and the 2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.[2] Plot introductionIt is set in Hillesden, a thinly disguised Willesden[3][4] in north-west London. Alfred White, a park keeper collapses while on duty, and his family gather round his hospital bed and reflect on issues of love, hatred, sex and death.[5] Reception
SequelCharacters in The White Family appear in Gee's 2004 novel The Flood, set in an unspecified future date.[8] References1. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/books/orangeprize2002/0,,670982,00.html Orange Prize 2002 | Special Reports | guardian.co.uk Books] Retrieved 1 August 2014. {{DEFAULTSORT:White Family}}2. ^2004 Shortlist | International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Retrieved 1 August 2014. 3. ^"What's On", The Willesden Herald, Saturday, 10 July 2004. Retrieved 1 August 2014. 4. ^Kasia Boddy, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3612667/Rich-people-and-foxes-desert-the-city.html "Rich people and foxes desert the city" - review of The Flood], The Telegraph, 24 February 2004. Retrieved 1 August 2014. 5. ^Rear jacket, First edition. 6. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/may/25/fiction.orangeprizeforfiction2002 "Too close to home] – Maya Jaggi acclaims The White Family by Maggie Gee, a portrait of race in Britain", The Guardian, Saturday 25 May 2002. Retrieved 7 August 2014. 7. ^Hephzibah Anderson, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/may/05/fiction.features1 "A bit of a grey area] – Maggie Gee's black and white examination of race in modern Britain, The White Family, seems curiously dated", The Observer, Sunday, 5 May 2002. Retrieved 7 August 2014. 8. ^Book Reviews - The Flood by Maggie Gee. ReviewsOfBooks.com. Retrieved 7 August 2014. 4 : 2002 British novels|Novels about racism|Novels set in London|Willesden |
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