
Salvage
Gee Williams(Author)
Granta Books (Publisher)
Published on 6. July 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-84708-108-7 (ISBN)
Description
Sometimes the stories we tell ourselves are the ones we most want to hear. On the brink of scandal, five characters bound by marriage, friendship and lust attempt to rescue what is most important to them. Through their interwoven narratives, Gee Williams deftly explores the dangers of our personal fictions in a dark, compelling mystery that begins on a stretch of the desolate Welsh coast, when Elly Kent discovers a ring - with a finger still attached - washed up on a beach. Written in the brilliantly vivid vernacular of everyday lives, Salvage is a taut, engrossing study of betrayal, self-justification and the consequences of rewriting the past.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
168 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84708-108-7 (9781847081087)
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Person
Gee Williams is a widely published poet and dramatist as well as a writer of fiction, including two short story collections Blood, Etc., and Magic and Other Deceptions. Salvage, her first novel, was short-listed for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was voted winner of the Pure Gold Fiction Award by Welsh readers. Born in Flintshire, North Wales, Gee Williams now lives in Cheshire with her husband.