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Spring
David Szalay
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Description for Spring
Paperback. James and Katherine meet at a wedding in London. It is January 2006, towards the end of the money-for-nothing years, and James is a man with a varied past - entrepreneur, estate agent, film producer - now living alone in a flat in Bloomsbury. Separated from her husband, a successful paparazzo, Katherine is working at an interim job in a hotel. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 190.
James and Katherine meet at a wedding in London in 2006, towards the end of the money-for-nothing years. James is a man with a varied past now living alone in a flat in Bloomsbury; Katherine is separated from her husband and working in an interim job in a luxury hotel. They exchange phone numbers at the wedding, but from then on not much goes according to the script...
James and Katherine meet at a wedding in London in 2006, towards the end of the money-for-nothing years. James is a man with a varied past now living alone in a flat in Bloomsbury; Katherine is separated from her husband and working in an interim job in a luxury hotel. They exchange phone numbers at the wedding, but from then on not much goes according to the script...
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099552772
SKU
V9780099552772
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Ref
99-28
About David Szalay
David Szalay is the author of five previous works of fiction: Spring, The Innocent, London and the South-East, for which he was awarded the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber Memorial prizes, All That Man Is, for which he was awarded the Gordon Burn prize and Plimpton Prize for Fiction, and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and Turbulence, which won the Edge Hill Prize. Born in Canada, he grew up in London, and now lives in Vienna. His work has been translated into over twenty languages.
Reviews for Spring
Spring confirms that [Szalay] is a writer with the whole range of talents... Often outstanding
Theo Tait
Sunday Times
A brave and intelligent novel... This is one of those books that leaves you not only with admiration for the novelist, but also with a sense of wonder about the precision of the novel form itself
Chris Cleave
Guardian
A texture of truthfulness quite unlike that of any other fiction about London that I know...a very beautifully poised novel
David Sexton
Evening Standard
The forensic scrutiny of every aspect of a fledgling relationship, from both points of view, is one of the many delights of Spring... Devastatingly powerful...also extremely funny, in that understated, unexpected way that makes you burst into sudden noise in public places and alarm those around you. Szalay's dialogue is pithy and sharp; his peripheral characters lip-smackingly delicious
Leyla Sanai
Independent on Sunday
The lives of two disconsolately unfulfilled people start to blaze, thanks to Szalay's often brutal honesty...formidable ear for dialogue - which transforms the most mundane exchanges into comedy, a la Mike Leigh - and seductively sensuous descriptions
Siobhan Murphy
Metro
A brave venture...psychologically realistic
Melissa McClements
Financial Times
A sharp, truthful, funny portrait of contemporary manners that is also unexpectedly moving
Kate Saunders
The Times
Highly unusual in its realism and astuteness about the way we live now...in its understated way, a very beautifully poised novel
David Sexton
Scotsman
Szalay is certainly a writer to look out for... The writer [he] most puts me in mind of is a young Julian Barnes
Thebookbag.co.uk
Szalay is immensely talented... [he] gets everything right: the atmosphere, the suspense, the inner lives of his characters. Absolutely superb
William Leith
Evening Standard
Theo Tait
Sunday Times
A brave and intelligent novel... This is one of those books that leaves you not only with admiration for the novelist, but also with a sense of wonder about the precision of the novel form itself
Chris Cleave
Guardian
A texture of truthfulness quite unlike that of any other fiction about London that I know...a very beautifully poised novel
David Sexton
Evening Standard
The forensic scrutiny of every aspect of a fledgling relationship, from both points of view, is one of the many delights of Spring... Devastatingly powerful...also extremely funny, in that understated, unexpected way that makes you burst into sudden noise in public places and alarm those around you. Szalay's dialogue is pithy and sharp; his peripheral characters lip-smackingly delicious
Leyla Sanai
Independent on Sunday
The lives of two disconsolately unfulfilled people start to blaze, thanks to Szalay's often brutal honesty...formidable ear for dialogue - which transforms the most mundane exchanges into comedy, a la Mike Leigh - and seductively sensuous descriptions
Siobhan Murphy
Metro
A brave venture...psychologically realistic
Melissa McClements
Financial Times
A sharp, truthful, funny portrait of contemporary manners that is also unexpectedly moving
Kate Saunders
The Times
Highly unusual in its realism and astuteness about the way we live now...in its understated way, a very beautifully poised novel
David Sexton
Scotsman
Szalay is certainly a writer to look out for... The writer [he] most puts me in mind of is a young Julian Barnes
Thebookbag.co.uk
Szalay is immensely talented... [he] gets everything right: the atmosphere, the suspense, the inner lives of his characters. Absolutely superb
William Leith
Evening Standard