Distance - Softcover

Morrison, Ewan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 022408237X ISBN 13: 9780224082372

Verlag: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2008

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"his prose feels utterly contemporary with a smooth, readable texture....it works well ... makes the novel a fast-paced read.'
-- Sunday Telegraph, Matt Thorne

`Distance is a remarkable, penetrating look at the nature of love, the psychology of sex and the role of delusion and fantasy in relationships... Swung was an amazing debut, Distance is considerably better, and Morrison is infuriatingly talented.' -- Doug Johnstone, author Tombstoning and The Ossians

"It's not easy to write about passionate love, but Morrison is completely convincing... In lesser hands, the besotted dialogues and communications between Tom and Meg might being to grate, but here the author makes them utterly compelling... On this form, Morrison is one of the finest novelists around" -- The Times

'A transatlantic romance is brilliantly stretched to breaking point. But after a passionate week together, just how well do Tom and Meg know each other? Secrets and lies mount on two continents, as a face-to-face confrontation inevitably looms' -- The Daily Mirror

'Distance is a remarkable, penetrating look at the nature of love, the psychology of sex and the role of delusion and fantasy in relationships... Swung was an amazing debut, Distance is considerably better, and Morrison is infuriatingly talented.' -- Doug Johnstone, author 'Tombstoning' and 'The Ossians'

'It's not easy to write about passionate love, but Morrison is completely convincing... In lesser hands, the besotted dialogues and communications between Tom and Meg might being to grate, but here the author makes them utterly compelling... On this form, Morrison is one of the finest novelists around' -- The Times

`Morrison can be insightful...This, together with philosophical musings about the nature of affection, bring weight to bear' -- Financial Times, Melissa McClements

`Morrison seems on the button with the mundane routines of long-distance love'
--Independent, Jonathan Gibbs

`incredibly compelling reading... further proving his worth as one to watch on the Scottish literary scene.'
--The List

`incredibly compelling reading...further proving his worth as one to watch on the Scottish literary scene' 4* --The List

Reseña del editor:

They fall in love in New York City and spend a passionate week together before he returns to his home in Edinburgh, where they are to reunite in eight weeks. So begins a long distance relationship filled with phone calls, phone sex, emails, text messages and the pain of waiting. Back in Scotland, Tom's eyes are opened to the mess he's been living in, with a job he despises and a girlfriend, an ex-wife and son he can no longer relate to. As he waits for Meg he takes to drinking in secret. Meanwhile in New York, Meg has been inspired by Tom to throw in her job as a Hollywood script doctor, and to write from her heart, secretly recording every detail of their intense week together. They talk every day on the phone, her day is his night. Six time zones out of sync. As the weeks count down to her arrival their love turns increasingly obsessive and they face traumatic life choices. Does Tom really Love Meg, or is she a dream of escape? And what is Tom to Meg but increasingly a fiction? Only when she arrives they will know for sure. As he showed in his highly praised first novel, Swung, Ewan Morrison writes about relationships between men and women with extraordinary sympathy, insight and daring.

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• Verlag: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 022408237X
• ISBN 13: 9780224082372
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432