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Entertaining Strangers
Jonathan Taylor
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Description for Entertaining Strangers
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 342.
Shortlisted for the 2013 East Midlands Book Award
Entertaining 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 ... Read more
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Publisher
Salt Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907773273
SKU
V9781907773273
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99-12
About Jonathan Taylor
Jonathan Taylor is an author, editor, lecturer and critic. His books include the memoir Take Me Home (Granta, 2007), and the novels Melissa (Salt, 2015) and Entertaining Strangers (Salt, 2012). Both novels were shortlisted for the East Midlands Book Award, and Take Me Home was recently named as one of the Five Best Books on Neuroscience by Prof. Andrew Lees. ... Read more
Reviews for Entertaining Strangers
Taylor achieves a heartfelt yet unsentimental memoir that is also a reconciliation.
Carol Birch
Times Literary Supplement
A brave and unsentimental book.
Diana Athill Riveting, detailed, moving account of his father’s Parkinson’s, mysterious past, and his own response to it.
Michele Hanson
Guardian
A literary novel, with prose like music.
Sophie Duffy ... Read more
Carol Birch
Times Literary Supplement
A brave and unsentimental book.
Diana Athill Riveting, detailed, moving account of his father’s Parkinson’s, mysterious past, and his own response to it.
Michele Hanson
Guardian
A literary novel, with prose like music.
Sophie Duffy ... Read more