The Standing Pool
Published on 4. June 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-0-09-950365-1 (ISBN)
Description
Two Cambridge academics, the historians Nick and Sarah Mallinson, take a sabbatical with their three small and lively girls in a remote Languedoc farmhouse. But the farmhouse contains its own histories, far darker and murkier than the Mallinsons are used to dealing with. As the illusion of Eden retreats, the couple begin to feel the vulnerability of being among strangers...
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Superior novel...wincingly precise in his imagery and technically adept... An electric and darkly gleeful read * Daily Mail * An immensely clever, tragicomic novel...a rich meditation on past and present colonial politics... What resonates for me is what I greatly admire in all Thorpe's work: the complex depth, and the texture and poetry of his storytelling language * Financial Times * An intimate depiction of family life... Vivid and luminous * Independent on Sunday * Because this is Adam Thorpe, there are only two things you know for certain: that the writing will be gorgeous, silky-smooth; and that the plot will be entirely original, defying categorisation...enjoy * Sunday Telegraph * An intricate fiction which reminds us gently that war wrecks lives in ways too tangled to anticipate * Times Literary Supplement *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
289 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-09-950365-1 (9780099503651)
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Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton, appeared in 1992, and he has published two books of stories, six poetry collections, and nine further novels, most recently Flight (2012).
www.adamthorpe.net
www.adamthorpe.net