Häftad, Engelska, 2012
Entertaining Strangers
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Shortlisted for the 2013 East Midlands Book AwardEntertaining Strangers is a tragi-comedy about the eccentric Edwin Prince – a depressive intellectual obsessed with high culture and ants – and the mysterious, homeless narrator Jules, who gradually unravels Edwin’s impossible relationships with his landlady, neurotic mother, psychotic brother, domineering ex-wife, dead grandfather and, above all, his ant-farm. At the same time, Jules continually experiences traumatic memories full of fire and water, and gradually a terrible pre-history emerges from beneath all of the other stories, which seems somehow to shape both Jules’s fiery dreams and Edwin’s obsessions – a great fire, massacre and one girl's drowning in Smyrna, 75 years earlier.
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- Utgivningsdatum: 2012-11-01
- Mått: 129 x 198 x 24 mm
- Vikt: 342 g
- Format: Häftad
- Språk: Engelska
- Serie: Salt Modern Fiction
- Antal sidor: 320
- Förlag: Salt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781907773273
- Utmärkelser: Short-listed for The East Midlands Book Awards 2013 (UK)
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Jonathan Taylor is an author, editor, lecturer and critic. His books include the memoir Take Me Home (Granta, 2007), and the novels Melissa (Salt, 2015) and Entertaining Strangers (Salt, 2012). Both novels were shortlisted for the East Midlands Book Award, and Take Me Home was recently named as one of the Five Best Books on Neuroscience by Prof. Andrew Lees. Jonathan teaches Creative Writing at the University of Leicester. His website is www.jonathanptaylor.co.uk
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Taylor achieves a heartfelt yet unsentimental memoir that is also a reconciliation.
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