Harrison M. John
Harrison M. John - The Sunken Land Begins To Rise Again Winner Of The Goldsmiths Prize 2020 - Paperback
Harrison M. John - The Sunken Land Begins To Rise Again Winner Of The Goldsmiths Prize 2020 - Paperback
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Description: * Winner OF THE Goldsmiths Prize 2020* * A New Statesman Book of the Year* A mesmerising mysterious book Haunting. Worrying. Beautiful Russell T. Davis Brilliantly unsettling Olivia Laing A magificent book Neil Gaiman An extraordinary experience William Gibson Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2020, this is fiction that pushes the boundaries of the novel form. Shaw had a breakdown but he's getting himself back together. He has a single room a job on a decaying London barge and an on - off affair with a doctor's daughter called Victoria who claims to have seen her first corpse at age thirteen. It's not ideal but it's a life. Or it would be if Shaw hadn't got himself involved in a conspiracy theory that on dark nights by the river seems less and less theoretical. Meanwhile Victoria is up in the Midlands renovating her dead mother's house trying to make new friends. But what exactly happened to her mother? Why has the local waitress disappeared into a shallow pool in a field behind the house? And why is the town so obsessed with that old Victorian morality tale The Water Babies? As Shaw and Victoria struggle to maintain their relationship the sunken lands are rising up again unnoticed in the shadows around them.
Title: The Sunken Land Begins To Rise Again Winner Of The Goldsmiths Prize 2020
Author(s): Harrison M. John
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Barcode: 9780575096363
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 12/28/2021
Category: Dating, Relationships, Living Together & Marriage
Description: * Winner OF THE Goldsmiths Prize 2020* * A New Statesman Book of the Year* A mesmerising mysterious book Haunting. Worrying. Beautiful Russell T. Davis Brilliantly unsettling Olivia Laing A magificent book Neil Gaiman An extraordinary experience William Gibson Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2020, this is fiction that pushes the boundaries of the novel form. Shaw had a breakdown but he's getting himself back together. He has a single room a job on a decaying London barge and an on - off affair with a doctor's daughter called Victoria who claims to have seen her first corpse at age thirteen. It's not ideal but it's a life. Or it would be if Shaw hadn't got himself involved in a conspiracy theory that on dark nights by the river seems less and less theoretical. Meanwhile Victoria is up in the Midlands renovating her dead mother's house trying to make new friends. But what exactly happened to her mother? Why has the local waitress disappeared into a shallow pool in a field behind the house? And why is the town so obsessed with that old Victorian morality tale The Water Babies? As Shaw and Victoria struggle to maintain their relationship the sunken lands are rising up again unnoticed in the shadows around them.
Title: The Sunken Land Begins To Rise Again Winner Of The Goldsmiths Prize 2020
Author(s): Harrison M. John
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Barcode: 9780575096363
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 12/28/2021
Category: Dating, Relationships, Living Together & Marriage
