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Indlæser... Cold Water (udgave 2002)af Gwendoline Riley
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. This is a short book but has a big impact. Its set in Manchester, probably in the late 90s, early 2000s - not sure exactly. It's fairly low on plot, but big on the atmosphere of a dismal rainy Manchester as the narrator wanders around, saddened by a relationship break up, working in a dive bar, stuck in a dead end life. Not much happens but a lot goes on in the narrators head and its well written. ( ) This was the second of her books I've read, & like the first (Sick Notes) I enjoyed it. I preferred Sick Notes, but Cold Water wasn't vastly different. There is not a lot of action in her novels,the narrator seems to always be fairly introspective & thoughtful, describing people & conversations rather than there being a detailed, linear plot. That's very much the case in Cold Water. I did find the characters a little too similar to Sick Notes in their attitudes & places in life. Her narrators always remind me of a friend I used to have - intelligent but drifting, wasting their lives by going nowhere & working in menial jobs just to enable them to pay the rent & drink in old dives. Still, I really do like her writing style & she does capture the characters & the city setting very well. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Carmel McKisco is wry, volatile and full of longing: a twenty-year-old girl working nights in a Manchester dive bar. Cut off from her family, and from Tony, her carefree ex, she forges strange alliances with her customers, and daydreams, half-heartedly, about escaping to Cornwall. Cold Water is a poignant picaresque of barmaids and barflies; eccentric individuals all somehow tethered to their past - not least Carmel herself, who is nurturing mordant fixations on both her lost love, Tony, and her washed-up adolescent hero: a singer from Macclesfield. As she spins out the days and nights of an unrelentingly rainy winter she finds herself compelled to confront her romantic preoccupations, for better or worse. No library descriptions found. |
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