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Unexploded (Paperback)
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Unexploded (Paperback)
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Unexploded is Alison MacLeod's heartrending novel of love and
prejudice in wartime Brighton. LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
2013 May, 1940. Wartime Brighton. On Park Crescent, Geoffrey and
Evelyn Beaumont and their eight-year-old son, Philip, anxiously
await news of the expected enemy landing on the beaches. It is a
year of change. Geoffrey becomes Superintendent of the enemy alien
camp at the far reaches of town, and Evelyn, desperate to feel
useful, begins reading to some of the prisoners. One of them is
Otto Gottlieb, a 'degenerate' German-Jewish. As Europe crumbles,
Evelyn's and Otto's mutual distrust slowly begins to change into
something else, which will shatter the structures on which her
life, her family and her community rest. 'Like a piece of finely
wrought ironwork, uncommonly delicate but also astonishingly strong
and tensile . . . a novel of staggering elegance and beauty'
Independent 'Compelling, fast-paced, powerful . . . the denouement
is as heart-rending as it is unexpected' Financial Times 'MacLeod's
range - spanning the movingly real to the mysteriously surreal - is
excitingly, imaginatively realised and unified in awareness of the
dark menace of love's uncertainty' Metro Alison MacLeod was raised
in Canada and has lived in England since 1987. She is the author of
three novels, The Changeling, The Wave Theory of Angels and
Unexploded, and of a collection of stories, Fifteen Modern Tales of
Attraction. Unexploded was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for
Fiction 2013. She is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at
Chichester University and lives in Brighton.
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Imprint: |
Penguin Books
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
March 2014 |
First published: |
February 2012 |
Authors: |
Alison Macleod
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Dimensions: |
196 x 129 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
339 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-14-101607-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-14-101607-8 |
Barcode: |
9780141016078 |
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