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Monk Dawson, is a novel by English author Piers Paul Read, published in 1969 by Secker and Warburg in the UK and in 1970 by Lippincott in the US, the year it won both the Somerset Maugham Award and Hawthornden Prize. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1998.
Monk Dawson. Piers Paul Read. 3.53. 55ratings4reviews. Kindle Unlimited $0.00. Edward Dawson is sent by his widowed mother to be educated at Kirkham, a Catholic boarding school run by Benedictine monks. Conscientious and idealistic, Dawson is persuaded that he has a monastic vocation and joins the community upon leaving school.
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12 de nov. de 2013 · Piers Paul Read's third novel, Monk Dawson (1969) won both the Somerset Maugham Award and the Hawthornden Prize. Narrated by a classmate, Bobby Winterman, the novel chronicles the evolution and conflicted life of Edward Dawson, who from youth wants to devote his life to helping others.
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Monk Dawson (1969) won critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic and earned both the Somerset Maugham Award and the Hawthornden Prize. Read has published sixteen novels to date, most of them well received by critics, including A Married Man (1979), A Season in the West (1988), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and, more ...
Autor. Piers Paul Read. Editorial. Valancourt Books. Idioma. Inglés. N° páginas. 188. Encuadernación. Tapa Blanda. Dimensiones. 21.6 x 14.0 x 1.2 cm. Peso. 0.20 kg. ISBN13. 9781939140579. Categorías. Ficción clásica. Vida interior. Compartir. Monk Dawson (en Inglés) Piers Paul Read (Autor) · Valancourt Books · Tapa Blanda. Libro Físico. $ 27.790.
Read's first notable success was his novel Monk Dawson (1969), which won him a Hawthornden Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award, and was later made into the 1998 film of the same name by Tom Waller. In 1978 he wrote the book The Train Robbers about the Great Train Robbery in England in 1963.
30 de jul. de 2013 · Piers Paul Read's third novel, Monk Dawson (1969), was a tremendous critical success, winning both the Somerset Maugham Award and the Hawthornden Prize and confirming his reputation as one of the outstanding novelists of his generation. This edition, the first in more than 25 years, features a new introduction by the author. Read more. ISBN-10.
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