Spill, simmer, falter, wither /
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| Author / Creator: | Baume, Sara, author. |
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| Imprint: | London : Windmill Books, 2015. |
| Description: | 277 pages ; 20 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10391635 |
| Summary: | SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2015 <br> <br> LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015 <br> <br> LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2016<br> <br> WINNER OF THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR, IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2015 <br> <br> WINNER OF THE GEOFFREY FABER MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR FICTION<br> <br> <br> You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window- COMPASSIONATE & TOLERANT OWNER. A PERSON WITHOUT OTHER PETS & WITHOUT CHILDREN UNDER FOUR. <br> <br> A misfit man finds a misfit dog. Ray, aged fifty-seven, 'too old for starting over, too young for giving up', and One Eye, a vicious little bugger, smaller than expected, a good ratter. Both are accustomed to being alone, unloved, outcast - but they quickly find in each other a strange companionship of sorts. As spring turns to summer, their relationship grows and intensifies, until a savage act forces them to abandon the precarious life they'd established, and take to the road.<br> <br> <br> Spill Simmer Falter Wither is a wholly different kind of love story- a devastating portrait of loneliness, loss and friendship, and of the scars that are more than skin-deep. Written with tremendous empathy and insight, in lyrical language that surprises and delights, this is an extraordinary and heartbreaking debut by a major new talent |
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| Physical Description: | 277 pages ; 20 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780099592747 0099592746 |
