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Carmel McKisco is wry, volatile and full of longing: a twenty-year-old girl working nights in a Manchester dive bar. Cut off from her family, and from Tony, her carefree ex, she forges strange alliances with her customers, and daydreams, half-heartedly, about escaping to Cornwall.
Cold Wateris a poignant picaresque of barmaids and barflies; eccentric individuals all somehow tethered to their past - not least Carmel herself, who is nurturing mordant fixations on both her lost love, Tony, and her washed-up adolescent hero: a singer from Macclesfield. As she spins out the days and nights of an unrelentingly rainy winter she finds herself compelled to confront her romantic preoccupations, for better or worse.
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Kurztext
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Carmel McKisco is wry, volatile and full of longing: a twenty-year-old girl working nights in a Manchester dive bar. Cut off from her family, and from Tony, her carefree ex, she forges strange alliances with her customers, and daydreams, half-heartedly, about escaping to Cornwall. Cold Water is a poignant picaresque of barmaids and barflies; eccentric individuals all somehow tethered to their past - not least Carmel herself, who is nurturing mordant fixations on both her lost love, Tony, and her washed-up adolescent hero: a singer from Macclesfield. As she spins out the days and nights of an unrelentingly rainy winter she finds herself compelled to confront her romantic preoccupations, for better or worse.
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Autorenportrait
- Gwendoline Riley was born in 1979 and has published three other novels:<i>Sick Notes</i>,<i>Joshua Spassky</i>, which was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and won the Somerset Maugham Award and, most recently,<i>Opposed Positions.</i>
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Schlagzeile
- <p>'A beautiful début novel... A real achievement... This is a wise and incisive first novel from a real talent' - <i>Scotsman</i></p><p><i></i></p><p>Winner of the Betty Trask Award.</p>
Detailansicht
Cold Water
eBook
ISBN/EAN: 9781446485750
Umbreit-Nr.: 6459949
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 160 S., 0.29 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 31.10.2013
Auflage: 1/2013
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM