Cold Water: Winner of the Betty Trask Award - Softcover

Riley, Gwendoline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099437155 ISBN 13: 9780099437154

Verlag: Vintage, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

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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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0099437155
• ISBN 13: 9780099437154
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
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