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Description for Featherstone
Paperback. In the small rural town of Featherstone there is something unsettling, intense and intimate that goes deep into the lives of the people who live there and bares their hearts. This is a novel about memory and need, forgetting and faith - and about the ways we deceive and believe in one another. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 190. Good clean copy
FEATHERSTONE: an attractive, small rural town serving outlying estates; bank, post office, school . . .
At first glance, Kirsty Gunn's small country town is like any other - a closely connected community bound by habit and familiarity. Yet as we're invited to spend the weekend in Featherstone we come to realise there's something about the place that unsettles us, something intense and intimate that goes deep into the lives of the people who live here and bares their hearts.
'The title of Kirsty Gunn's beautiful new novel is a key - the marvellous weighting of ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571212521
SKU
KSG0009451
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Kirsty Gunn
Kirsty Gunn is an internationally awarded writer who published her first novel with Faber in 1994 and since then eight works of fiction, including short stories, as well as a collection of fragments and meditations, and essays. She is Professor of Writing Practice and Study at the University of Dundee and lives in London and Scotland with her husband and ... Read more
Reviews for Featherstone
'A new author of undeniable talent' Sunday Times; 'Kirsty Gunn has the originality of a poet. Her dangerous shifting territory is the underworld of female desire.' The Times