Spill Simmer Falter Wither - Couverture souple

Baume, Sara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0992817064 ISBN 13 : 9780992817060

Editeur : Tramp Press, 2015

Synopsis

You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. You're sellotaped to the inside pane of the jumble shop window. A photograph of your mangled face and underneath an appeal for a COMPASSIONATE AND TOLERANT OWNER. A PERSON WITHOUT OTHER PETS & WITHOUT CHILDREN UNDER FOUR. Part Kjersti Skomsvold, part Patrick McCabe, Spill Simmer Falter Wither is a wholly different kind of love story, a conversation almost entirely told from one side, that spans the four seasons echoed in the novel s title. Written with tremendous empathy and insight, Baume s debut captures the incremental destructive essence of loneliness, and confirms the talent so emphatically acknowledged by the Davy Byrnes Award jury.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"This book is like a flame in daylight: beautiful and unexpected. It packs a big effect for something that seems so slight, and almost hard to see." (Anne Enright)

"A stunning and wonderful achievement by a writer touched by greatness. It is the most powerful debut novel I have read in several years . . . An outstanding new Irish novelist." (Joseph O'Connor)

"Unbearably poignant and beautifully told." (Eimear McBride, author of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing)

"At the foundations of the novel is the issue of what happens when a community fails those who need it most ... Baume turns the commonplace minutiae of changing seasons, thoughts and people into the remarkable." (Sunday Times)

"A fascinating portrait of the friendship a man develops with his dog and the companionship he also finds in books...Fear curdles through this story, which skilfully builds suspense as it discloses their painful pasts...The lyrical language is most alive when evoking landscape...Baume [has] a gift for inventive use of language...Baume succeeds is reawakening her reader’s capacity for wonder...so much so that the book and its one-eyed dog became companions I was loathe to leave." (Observer)

Quatrième de couverture

You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window: COMPASSIONATE & TOLERANT OWNER. A PERSON WITHOUT OTHER PETS & WITHOUT CHILDREN UNDER FOUR.

A misfit man finds a misfit dog. Ray, aged fifty-seven, ‘too old for starting over, too young for giving up’, and One Eye, a vicious little bugger, smaller than expected, a good ratter. Both are accustomed to being alone, unloved, outcast – but they quickly find in each other a strange companionship of sorts. As spring turns to summer, their relationship grows and intensifies, until a savage act forces them to abandon the precarious life they’d established, and take to the road.

‘Unbearably poignant and beautifully told.’ Eimear McBride, author of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing

‘Ambitious and impressive … a comparably significant debut.’ Times Literary Supplement

‘It’s hard to imagine a more exciting debut novel being published this year.’ Irish Times

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tramp Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0992817064
• ISBN 13: 9780992817060
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible