Gwendoline Riley

Broschiertes Buch

Cold Water

Beschreibung

Carmel McKisco is wry, volatile and full of longing: a twenty-year-old girl working nights in a Manchester dive bar. 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.

Autor

Gwendoline Riley was born in 1979 and has published four novels: Cold Water , which won a Betty Trask Award, Sick Notes, Joshua Spassky, which was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and won the Somerset Maugham Award, and Opposed Positions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 542203
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 129mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 121g
• ISBN-13: 9780099437154
• ISBN-10: 0099437155
• Artikelnr.: 21135767

Rezensionen

Strikingly assured... A writer of unexpected sensibilities and uncompromising originality Guardian