Kirsty Gunn 74248 - Caroline's Bikini
| Schrijver: | Kirsty Gunn 74248 |
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| Titel: | Caroline's Bikini |
| ISBN: | 9780571339334 |
| Uitgever: | Faber & Faber |
| Bijzonderheden: | Goed, 2018, Paperback, 335p |
| Prijs: | € 7,50 |
| Verzendkosten: | € 5,50 (binnen Nederland) |
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A gin-fueled love story with one part One Day mixed with one part Zadie Smith and a splash of Ali Smith. Included in the Guardian's \"Top Ten books about unrequited love\" \"Alright\" I said, \"I'll try...\" This is how Emily Stuart opens her intricate tale of a classic love affair that becomes Caroline's Bikini a swirling cocktail of infatuation, obsession, and imagination. The moment that Emily's friend Evan Gordonstone - a successful middle-aged financier - meets Caroline Beresford - a glamorous former horsewoman, and now housewife, hostess, and landlady - there is a \"PING \" At least, that's how Evan describes it to Emily when he persuades her to record his story: the story of falling into unrequited love, which is as old as Western literature itself. Thus begins a hypnotic series of conversations set against the beguiling backdrop of West London's bars, fueled in intensity by endless gin and tonics and Q&As. From the depths of mid-winter to July's hot swelter, Emily's narration of Evan's passion for Caroline will take him to the brink of his own destruction. Written in a voice so playful, so charismatic, and so thoughtfully aware of the responsibilities of fiction it can only be by Kirsty Gunn, Caroline's Bikini is a swooning portrait of courtly love - in a modern world not celebrated for its restraint and abstraction. Ready. Steady. Go
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