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21%OFFGwendoline Riley - Cold Water - 9780099437154 - V9780099437154
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Cold Water

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Description for Cold Water Paperback. Carmel McKisco, a 20-year-old girl working nights in a Manchester dive bar, cut off from her family, and from her ex, forms strange alliances with her customers and daydreams about escaping to Cornwall. She soon finds herself compelled to confront her romantic preoccupations, for better or worse. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 138.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099437154
SKU
V9780099437154
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About Gwendoline Riley
Gwendoline Riley was born in 1979 and has published three other novels: Sick Notes, Joshua Spassky, which was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and won the Somerset Maugham Award and, most recently, Opposed Positions.

Reviews for Cold Water
Strikingly assured... A writer of unexpected sensibilities and uncompromising originality
Guardian
Cold Water is a thrilling pleasure... I don't think I've read such a good début in years
Alan Warner Vivid and stylish and endlessly, surprisingly filled with perfect, unexpected images... a beautifully written book, utterly original and the most exciting thing to have been published this ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Cold Water


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