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Item Details
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ENTERTAINING STRANGERS
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| By: |
Jonathan Taylor |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£2.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1844719456 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781844719457 |
| Publisher: |
SALT PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
5 February, 2013 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
Jonathan Taylor's debut novel, Entertaining Strangers, is a tragi-comedy about the eccentric Edwin Prince - a depressive intellectual obsessed with high culture ... and ants. |
| Synopsis: |
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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No |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Salt Publishing |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for The East Midlands Book Awards 2013 (UK)
Long-listed for Not the Booker Prize 2013 (UK) |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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