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Burnt Island
Alice Thompson
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Description for Burnt Island
Paperback. Burnt island is about a literary novelist, Max Long, who wins a fellowship to Burnt island to write his next novel. He ends up staying with the very successful novelist James Fairfax whose wife had gone missing under mysterious circumstances. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 213.
For disillusioned author Max Long, the offer of a writing-fellowship on the mysterious-sounding `Burnt Island' is a godsend. Max is determined that, inspired by his tenure on this windswept outpost, he will produce every writer's dream - the bestseller. And this time, he plans to subvert his usual genre and write a horror story. But upon arrival, Max's fantasies of hermetic island life are overturned when he encounters a potential rival living in close proximity - the famously reclusive James Fairfax, author of the internationally-lauded novel, Lifeblood. Fairfax's ... Read more
For disillusioned author Max Long, the offer of a writing-fellowship on the mysterious-sounding `Burnt Island' is a godsend. Max is determined that, inspired by his tenure on this windswept outpost, he will produce every writer's dream - the bestseller. And this time, he plans to subvert his usual genre and write a horror story. But upon arrival, Max's fantasies of hermetic island life are overturned when he encounters a potential rival living in close proximity - the famously reclusive James Fairfax, author of the internationally-lauded novel, Lifeblood. Fairfax's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Salt Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907773488
SKU
V9781907773488
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About Alice Thompson
Alice Thompson was born and brought up in Edinburgh. She was the former keyboard player with post-punk eighties band, The Woodentops and joint winner with Graham Swift of The James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for her first novel, Justine. Her second novel, Pandora's Box, was shortlisted for The Stakis Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year. Her other ... Read more
Reviews for Burnt Island
Fractured and lucid as a dream. Creepy and brilliant.
Ian Rankin At the end Thompson seems to be hinting that writing is a parasitic occupation, a form of vampirism even, writers taking the events of others' lives and using them as raw material, and in the relationship between Fairfax and Long that is taken to an extreme. Exquisitely written, ... Read more
Ian Rankin At the end Thompson seems to be hinting that writing is a parasitic occupation, a form of vampirism even, writers taking the events of others' lives and using them as raw material, and in the relationship between Fairfax and Long that is taken to an extreme. Exquisitely written, ... Read more