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Summer of Drowning
John Burnside
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Description for Summer of Drowning
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242.
‘Memorable, atmospheric and compelling’ Times Literary Supplement
Liv lives with her mother on a remote island in the Arctic Circle.
Her only friend is an old man who beguiles her with tales of trolls, mermaids, and the huldra, a wild spirit who appears as an irresistably beautiful girl, to tempt young men to danger and death. Then two boys drown within weeks of each other under mysterious circumstances, in the still, moonlit waters off the shores of Liv's home.
Were the deaths accidental or were the boys lured to their doom by a malevolent spirit?
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099422372
SKU
V9780099422372
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About John Burnside
John Burnside was among the most acclaimed writers of his generation. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial, Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and, in 2023, he received the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime’s achievement in literature. In 2011 Black Cat Bone won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes for poetry. He died in 2024.
Reviews for Summer of Drowning
It's very, very rare for a writer to be equally good at poems and novels. John Burnside is. He's a brilliant poet, a brilliant memoirist, and a brilliant novelist ... breathtakingly good
Christina Patterson
Independent
The most defining aspect of Burnside's work aside from its linguistic exactness is the beauty of his prose. Quite simply, he is a wonderful writer. Whatever he is writing always seems real and, considering much of the content of this new novel, that is a considerable asset for any storyteller
Eileen Battersby
Irish Times
Burnside allows the ambiguity to remain in a hauntingly memorable book
Nick Rennison
Sunday Times
In this beautifully sustained novel madness, mystery and myth-making collide. Burnside has an eerie attunement to the ineffable nature of existence and the fictions we construct to navigate and explain it
Adam O'Riordan
Financial Times
The novel invites you to view storytelling as akin to madness...In a book that often makes coded reference to itself to provoke serious thought as to what fiction is about, this counts as a joke. Its evasions may discomfit those who like to know exactly where they stand, but those who enjoy being teased as well as spooked should relish an eerie, ethereal novel that alludes to Lewis Carroll and uses methods of Hitchcock and David Lynch
Daily Telegraph
Memorable, atmospheric and compelling
Tim Souster
Times Literary Supplement
A beautiful and haunting book...A charming and deeply imaginative novel
Aesthetica
Lyrical in his descriptions on the land of the midnight sun
Clare Colvin
Daily Mail
Burnside's prose has been frequently praised for its clarity, poetic sonority and fine cadences. It is certainly so here ... A Summer of Drowning marries philosophical meditation with the gooseflesh verve of a thriller
Stuart Kelly
Scotland on Sunday
Burnside is an accomplished and careful writer. And this is a beautiful book, compelling and strange
Margaret Reynolds
The Times
Christina Patterson
Independent
The most defining aspect of Burnside's work aside from its linguistic exactness is the beauty of his prose. Quite simply, he is a wonderful writer. Whatever he is writing always seems real and, considering much of the content of this new novel, that is a considerable asset for any storyteller
Eileen Battersby
Irish Times
Burnside allows the ambiguity to remain in a hauntingly memorable book
Nick Rennison
Sunday Times
In this beautifully sustained novel madness, mystery and myth-making collide. Burnside has an eerie attunement to the ineffable nature of existence and the fictions we construct to navigate and explain it
Adam O'Riordan
Financial Times
The novel invites you to view storytelling as akin to madness...In a book that often makes coded reference to itself to provoke serious thought as to what fiction is about, this counts as a joke. Its evasions may discomfit those who like to know exactly where they stand, but those who enjoy being teased as well as spooked should relish an eerie, ethereal novel that alludes to Lewis Carroll and uses methods of Hitchcock and David Lynch
Daily Telegraph
Memorable, atmospheric and compelling
Tim Souster
Times Literary Supplement
A beautiful and haunting book...A charming and deeply imaginative novel
Aesthetica
Lyrical in his descriptions on the land of the midnight sun
Clare Colvin
Daily Mail
Burnside's prose has been frequently praised for its clarity, poetic sonority and fine cadences. It is certainly so here ... A Summer of Drowning marries philosophical meditation with the gooseflesh verve of a thriller
Stuart Kelly
Scotland on Sunday
Burnside is an accomplished and careful writer. And this is a beautiful book, compelling and strange
Margaret Reynolds
The Times