A01=Mark Dunn
Author_Mark Dunn
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Product details
- ISBN 9780413778109
- Publication Date: 26 Jul 2018
- Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In Mark Dunn’s new novel, his alter ego, Griffin Stoddard, a long-time admirer of Cranford author, Mrs Gaskell, chances upon her work called We Five. He comes to learn that the novel – unpublished in her lifetime – was subsequently adapted by three other writers. Stoddard draws together the four versions and writes his own to complement them. The result is a novel which spans five different historical periods – a small mill town near Manchester in 1859, San Francisco in the days before the 1906 earthquake, the fictional Zenith, Winnemac of 1923, autumn in 1940’s war torn London and a small town in Northern Mississippi in 1997 – and follows five childhood friends – Ruth, Jane, Molly, Maggie and Carrie – their encounters with five young men of differing intentions, the girls’ respective families together with their ever-changing occupations and exploits, concluding with an explosive unification of all five stories.
This cleverly constructed novel’s style is faithful to each era, the vagaries of language and the bonds of friendship. Readers who have already discovered Ella Minnow Pea – a novel without letters, Ibid: A Life – a novel in footnotes and Welcome to Higby will recognise and enjoy the challenges in Mark Dunn’s new adventure Pentaptych.
Mark Dunn is the author of a number of books and over thirty plays produced throughout the world. His first novel Ella Minnow Pea received several awards when first published in 2001 and remains popular with book groups, high schools and colleges. Mark is also the author of the novels Welcome To Higby, Ibid: A Life, and Under the Harrow, as well as Zounds! A Browser's Dictionary of Interjections, and most recently, Quizzing America: Television Game Shows and Popular Culture in the 1950s. Mark's "magnum opus," American Decameron, presents 100 short stories, each set in a different year of the 20th century.
Mark's work for theatre includes the popular plays Belles, Five Tellers Dancing in the Rain, and the soon-to-be published The Glitter Girls.
Mark makes his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his wife Mary and three monochromatic cats.
