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If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things
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Author : Jon McGregor
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2014-07-22
If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things written by Jon McGregor and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-22 with Fiction categories.
In this Booker Prize–nominated “dream of a novel,” ordinary middle-class lives converge and collide one summer day in England (The Times). In delicate, intricately observed close-up, this novel makes us privy to the private lives of residents of a quiet street over the course of a single day, to the hopes, fears, and unspoken despairs of a diverse community: a single father with painfully scarred hands; a group of young club-goers just home from an all-night rave, sweetly high and mulling over vague dreams; and the nervous young man at number 18 who collects weird urban junk and is haunted by the specter of unrequited love. What eventually unites them is an utterly surprising and terrible twist of fate that shatters their everyday, ordinary tranquility, and all that they take for granted. A prose poem of a novel with a mystery at its center that “recalls To The Lighthouse or Mrs. Dalloway” (The Times), If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things was the recipient of the Somerset Maugham Award and the Betty Trask Award, and was named one of the best books of the year by the Los Angeles Times. It is, in the words of Ali Smith, “a tremendous read.” “A wonderful evocation of the beauty and horror of the literally everyday.” —Booklist (starred review) “Absolutely resplendent . . . does for urban England what John Cheever did for Westchester County.” —Bookpage
If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things
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Author : Jon McGregor
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing UK
Release Date : 2003-05-05
If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things written by Jon McGregor and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-05 with Fiction categories.
On a street in a unnamed town in the north of England, perfectly ordinary people are doing totally ordinary things... but then a terrible event shatters the quiet of the early summer evening and no one who witnesses it will be quite the same again.
Even The Dogs
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Author : Jon Mcgregor
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2020-05-12
Even The Dogs written by Jon Mcgregor and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-12 with Fiction categories.
"A ferocious book, at once intense and alarmingly unsentimental" (James Wood, The New Yorker), this intimate exploration of life at the edges of society is littered with love, loss, despair, and a half–glimpse of redemption―now reissued with an introduction by Yiyun Li On a cold, quiet day between Christmas and the New Year, a man's body is found in an abandoned apartment. His friends look on, but they're dead, too. Their bodies found in squats and sheds and alleyways across the city. Victims of heroin, they're ghosts in the shadows, a chorus keeping vigil as the hours pass, paying their own particular homage as their friend's body is taken away, examined, investigated, and cremated. All of their stories are laid out piece by broken piece through a series of fractured narratives. We meet Robert, the deceased, the only alcoholic in a sprawling group of junkies; Danny, just back from uncomfortable holidays with family, who discovers the body; Laura, Robert's daughter, who stumbles into the drug addict's life when she moves in with her father after years apart; Heather, who has her own home for the first time since she was a teenager; Mike, the Falklands War vet; and all the others. Theirs are stories of lives fallen through the cracks, hopes flaring and dying, love overwhelmed by more immediate needs. These invisible people live in a parallel reality to most of us, out of reach of food and shelter. And in their sudden deaths, it becomes clear, they are treated with more respect than they ever were in their short lives. Winner of the International Dublin Literary Award, Even the Dogs is a daring and humane exploration of homelessness and addiction from "a writer who will make a significant stamp on world literature. In fact, he already has" (Colum McCann, winner of the National Book Award).
So Many Ways To Begin
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Author : Jon McGregor
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2017-01-01
So Many Ways To Begin written by Jon McGregor and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-01 with Fiction categories.
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
Reservoir 13
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Author : Jon Mcgregor
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2017-10-03
Reservoir 13 written by Jon Mcgregor and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-03 with Fiction categories.
Evoking the spirit of Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides, Zadie Smith's NW, and Hisham Matar's Anatomy of a Disappearance, this novel sweeps the reader up quickly into its understated and emotionally moving story of a whole English village haunted by one family’s loss. Midwinter in an English village. A teenage girl has gone missing. Everyone is called upon to join the search. The villagers fan out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on what is usually a place of peace. Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed. As the seasons unfold and the search for the missing girl goes on, there are those who leave the village and those who are pulled back; those who come together and those who break apart. There are births and deaths; secrets kept and exposed; livelihoods made and lost; small kindnesses and unanticipated betrayals. An extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, Reservoir 13 explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a tragedy refuse to subside. Winner of the Costa Novel Award, Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017, and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
This Isn T The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You
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Author : Jon McGregor
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-02-02
This Isn T The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You written by Jon McGregor and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-02 with Fiction categories.
A man builds a tree house by a river, in anticipation of the coming flood. A sugar-beet crashes through a young woman's windscreen. A boy sets fire to a barn. A pair of itinerant labourers sit by a lake, talking about shovels and sex, while fighter-planes fly low overhead and prepare for war. These aren't the sort of things you imagine happening to someone like you. But sometimes they do. Set in the flat and threatened fenland landscape, where the sky is dominant and the sea lurks just beyond the horizon, these delicate, dangerous, and sometimes deeply funny stories tell of things buried and unearthed, of familiar places made strange, and of lives where much is hidden, much is at risk, and tender moments are hard-won.
Lean Fall Stand
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Author : Jon Mcgregor
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2022-09-06
Lean Fall Stand written by Jon Mcgregor and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-06 with Fiction categories.
A thrilling and propulsive novel of an Antarctica expedition gone wrong and its far-reaching consequences for the explorers and their families "leaves the reader moved and subtly changed, as if she had become part of the story" (Hilary Mantel). “McGregor’s depiction of speechlessness, both metaphorical and physical, makes the novel much more interesting than if he had provided a page-turner about a botched expedition in Antarctica . . . McGregor’s carefully composed dialogue, filled with the repetition of so few words, had an eerie effect on me: for several days my own inner dialogue was often composed of the same words, as though I, too, was discovering how they could express drastically different emotions yet remain unreadable to the world." —Yiyun Li, New York Review of Books Remember the training: find shelter or make shelter, remain in place, establish contact with other members of the party, keep moving, keep calm. Robert 'Doc' Wright, a veteran of Antarctic surveying, was there on the ice when the worst happened. He holds within him the complete story of that night—but depleted by the disaster, Wright is no longer able to communicate the truth. Instead, in the wake of the catastrophic expedition, he faces the most daunting adventure of his life: learning a whole new way to be in the world. Meanwhile Anna, his wife, must suddenly scramble to navigate the sharp and unexpected contours of life as a caregiver. From the Booker Prize-longlisted, American Academy of Arts & Letters Award-winning author of Reservoir 13, this is a novel every bit as mesmerizing as its setting. Tenderly unraveling different notions of heroism through the rippling effects of one extraordinary expedition on an ordinary family, Lean Fall Stand explores the indomitable human impulse to turn our experiences into stories—even when the words may fail us.
If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things
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Author : Jon McGregor
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2017-01-01
If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things written by Jon McGregor and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-01 with Fiction categories.
WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARD WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
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Author : Hank Green
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-09-25
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing written by Hank Green and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-25 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
IF YOU CAME ACROSS AN ABSOLUTELY REMARKABLE THING AT 3 A.M. IN NEW YORK CITY . . . WOULD YOU KEEP WALKING? OR DO THE ONE THING THAT WOULD CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER? **************** The Carls just appeared . . . While roaming the streets of New York City at 3 a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture she calls Carl. Delighted by its appearance - like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armour - April and her friend Andy make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. There are Carls in dozens of cities around the world - everywhere from Beijing to Buenos Aires - and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the centre of an international media spotlight. Now April has to deal with the pressure on her relationships, her identity and her safety that this new position brings, all while being on the front lines of the quest to find out not just what the Carls are, but what they want from us . . . Compulsively entertaining and powerfully relevant, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing grapples with how the social internet is changing fame and radicalisation; how our culture deals with fear and uncertainty; and how vilification and adoration can follow a life in the public eye. ***************** 'A fun, contemporary adventure that cares about who we are as humans, especially when faced with remarkable events' Kirkus (starred review) 'Hank Green hasn't just written a great mystery adventure (though he has), and he hasn't just written the most interesting meditation on the internet and fame I've ever seen (but he did that too), Hank has written a book [that] expands your mind while taking you on a hell of a ride' Joseph Fink, author of Welcome to Night Vale 'An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is pure book joy' Lev Grossman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians Trilogy 'Fun and full of truth. To be honest, I'm a little irritated at how good the book is. I don't need this kind of competition' Patrick Rothfuss, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Kingkiller Chronicles
If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things
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Author : Jon McGregor
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2003-11-01
If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things written by Jon McGregor and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11-01 with Fiction categories.
McGregor pens a haunting story of the events that transpire over a single dayat the end of summer on a small urban street in England.