The Professor's Daughter

by Piers Paul Read

This is a novel about a daughter of a high-powered Harvard professor who gets involved with one of her father's political students and with a plot to assassinate the local senator who also happens to be her mother's lover. Piers Paul Reed also wrote "The Upstart" and "Season in the West".

Genres: Fiction, Novels

242 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1971

About the author

British novelist and non-fiction writer. Educated at the Benedictines' Ampleforth College, and subsequently entered St John's College, University of Cambridge where he received his BA and MA (history). Artist-in-Residence at the Ford Foundation in Berlin (1963-4), Harkness Fellow, Commonwealth Fund, New York (1967-8), member of the Council of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (1971-5), member of the Literature Panel at the Arts Council, (1975-7), and Adjunct Professor of Writing, Columbia University, New York (1980). From 1992-7 he was Chairman of the Catholic Writers' Guild. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL).

His most well-known work is the non-fiction Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (1974), an account of the aftermath of a plane crash in the Andes, later adapted as a film.

Reviews

[Juan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice theme and organization, but lousy plots and characters.

[Maria Panova · Rating 5 out of 5]

Книгата много ми хареса. Чете се на един дъх. Представя сложни човешки съдби. Завладяващо четиво!

[Рамон Меркадер · Rating 3 out of 5]

Средна ръка книга, не е нещо, което да ме накара втори път да посегна към нея.
Най-запомнящия се герой между другото е Джейсън, хипито, за което се омъжва Луиза и неговото "търсене" на собственото "Аз".

[Tracey]

Same author who wrote Alive! about the Andes plane crash survivors.

[Albena · Rating 3 out of 5]

Средна работа. Твърде много опит за теория в художествена проза действа леко изнервящо.

[Tsvetina · Rating 5 out of 5]

showed me 3 different views of life