'Open yourself up again to all that terrible light and savage bliss
and deafening reverberation ...' In the Summer of 1971, a
charismatic family seeks refuge in the quiet, English coastal
backwater of Pett Level. Bran Cleary is a controversial Irish
muralist; his fractious and promiscuous wife (and muse) 'Lonely'
Allaway is half Aboriginal; their strange, sickly daughter, Orla
Nor, is almost a Saint. Thirteen years later, a shifty individual
turns up in Pett Level, apparently determined to get to the bottom
of the bizarre and ultimately tragic events which unfolded in the
aftermath of that arrival. But does he really want to understand,
or is he just way too close to the story to make any clear sense of
it? And what of the locals who seem so determined to resist and
undermine his investigations? 'In The Approaches' is a fabulously
twisted comedy of very bad manners which starts out as a seaside
idyll and ends up as a pilgrimage - sometimes sacred, sometimes
profane, and frequently both at once. Set in a 1984 which seems
almost as distantly located in the past as Orwell's was in the
future, Nicola Barker's tenth novel offers a captivating glimpse of
something more shocking than any dystopia - the possibility of
faith.
General
Imprint: |
Fourth Estate
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
May 2015 |
Authors: |
Nicola Barker
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Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 33mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - B-format
|
Pages: |
512 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-00-758372-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-00-758372-9 |
Barcode: |
9780007583720 |
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