
Tenderwire
Claire Kilroy(Author)
Faber & Faber (Publisher)
Published on 5. April 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-571-22975-8 (ISBN)
Description
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'Captivating' Irish Times
'Revealing and elegant' Financial Times
'Masterful.' Sunday Tribune
Eva Tyne, an Irish violinist living and working in New York, collapses after her solo debut and is rushed to hospital. Still dazed after the incident, she finds herself embarked on a chaotic and dangerous odyssey. Leaving her steady partner, she quickly falls in love with a mysterious man, and shortly thereafter comes across a rare violin of dubious provenance, for which she must raise the required payment in cash in less than a week. But, haunted by the ghost of her father, racked with jealousy, and unsure whom she can trust around her, Eva soon finds herself playing a desperate psychological game as her desires threaten to destroy her.
Narrated in Eva's unforgettable voice - at once passionate and unreliable - Tenderwire is a novel of immense pace and skill, a guessing game and a whodunnit that surprises at every turn.
PRAISE FOR SOLDIER SAILOR:
'Intense, furious, moving and often extremely funny.' DAVID NICHOLLS
'Astonishing.' Observer
'So powerful.' MONICA ALI
'Exceptionally good [it] sizzles and crackles with life.' The Times
'A huge, small book.' ANNE ENRIGHT
'I lived and breathed beside her narrator. A furious, muffled shout of a book.' DAISY JOHNSON
'Captivating' Irish Times
'Revealing and elegant' Financial Times
'Masterful.' Sunday Tribune
Eva Tyne, an Irish violinist living and working in New York, collapses after her solo debut and is rushed to hospital. Still dazed after the incident, she finds herself embarked on a chaotic and dangerous odyssey. Leaving her steady partner, she quickly falls in love with a mysterious man, and shortly thereafter comes across a rare violin of dubious provenance, for which she must raise the required payment in cash in less than a week. But, haunted by the ghost of her father, racked with jealousy, and unsure whom she can trust around her, Eva soon finds herself playing a desperate psychological game as her desires threaten to destroy her.
Narrated in Eva's unforgettable voice - at once passionate and unreliable - Tenderwire is a novel of immense pace and skill, a guessing game and a whodunnit that surprises at every turn.
PRAISE FOR SOLDIER SAILOR:
'Intense, furious, moving and often extremely funny.' DAVID NICHOLLS
'Astonishing.' Observer
'So powerful.' MONICA ALI
'Exceptionally good [it] sizzles and crackles with life.' The Times
'A huge, small book.' ANNE ENRIGHT
'I lived and breathed beside her narrator. A furious, muffled shout of a book.' DAISY JOHNSON
Reviews / Votes
"'This highly strung escapade is kept aloft by Kilroy's pitch-perfect prose.' Independent"More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
231 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-22975-8 (9780571229758)
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Person
Claire Kilroy is the author of All Summer, described in The Times as 'compelling ... a thriller, a confession and a love story framed by a meditation on the arts', which won the 2004 Rooney Prize. Educated at Trinity College, she lives in Dublin.