Crustaceans - Hardcover

Cowan, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340713054 ISBN 13: 9780340713051

Verlag: Sceptre, 2000

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Book by Cowan Andrew

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Cowan has excelled himself with this brilliant and poignant book - Lucy McDonald, Sunday Express 'Immensely powerful' The Bookseller 'Andrew Cowan tackles the big subjects of love and loss, working backwards and forwards from the still, shocked point of a child's death and constructing a book that is unremitting but rewarding...The book begins and ends in wintry east-coast light but keeps alive the hope of human contact and warmth' Stephen Blanchard, Time Out Riveting ... Andrew Cowan conveys the experience of loss with an extraordinary, aching precision - Alan Mahar, Literary Review Haunting and heartbreaking ... Cowan's beautifully compact writing keenly evokes absence, the delineation of which has been known to elude the finest authors - Sunday Times 'Andrew Cowan takes a risk with this quietly audacious first-person narrative of love and loss...the life story he addresses directly to his five-year-old son, Euan, is told with a tenderness and detail that shine through all his dark domestic secrets. CRUSTACEANS is a bleakly beautiful novel...The carefully weighted prose, with a firm physicality and groundedness of detail reminiscent of early Seamus Heaney, takes us back and forth through the narrator's messy personal history...Although a grimmer story than Cowan's COMMON GROUND (1996), CRUSTACEANS marks a significant advance. It is a mature novel with a dist

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On his son's sixth birthday, Paul begins to tell Euan a story. He recalls the boy's birth, his first words and steps and his mother. He also remembers his own mother's death and his father's refusal to explain it. It soon becomes evident however, that Euan is not in the car.

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• Verlag: Sceptre
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0340713054
• ISBN 13: 9780340713051
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 191