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An electrifying novel of mortality, passion, and human connection, set against the backdrop of a deadly global virus--from the "astonishing, miraculous" (Daisy Johnson) Man Booker-nominated writer You were the last one here, before I closed the door of Burntcoat. Before we all closed our doors . . . In an unnamed British city, the virus is spreading, and like everyone else, the celebrated sculptor Edith Harkness retreats inside. She isolates herself in her immense studio, Burntcoat, with Halit, the lover she barely knows. As life outside changes irreparably, inside Burntcoat, Edith and Halit find themselves changed as well: by the histories and responsibilities each carries and bears, by the fears and dangers of the world outside, and by the progressions of their new relationship. And Burntcoat will be transformed, too, into a new and feverish world, a place in which Edith comes to an understanding of how we survive the impossible--and what is left after we have. A sharp and stunning novel of art and ambition, mortality and connection, Burntcoat is a major work from "one of our most influential short story writers" (The Guardian). It is an intimate and vital examination of how and why we create--make art, form relationships, build a life--and an urgent exploration of an unprecedented crisis, the repercussions of which are still years in the learning.Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100063138050
ISBN-139780063138056
eBay Product ID (ePID)26050034639
Product Key Features
Publication Year2021
TopicDystopian, Sagas, Literary
Book TitleBurntcoat : a Novel
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorSarah Hall
FormatAudio Recording Downloadable
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsThe writing is luminous from the first page...Slipping seamlessly between fantasy and reality, [Sudden Traveler] is an ambitious, powerful and, at times, deeply unsettling book., Unsettling . . . what is new here...is the unflinching focus on physical control. This can make for squeamish reading...but the result is a powerful argument that, when civil institutions, or the bodies of state, are compromised, so, too, is the integrity of the body., Hall's writing is, as ever, arresting, polished, charged with imagery, luscious and electric. Reading her in Sudden Traveler is like watching a fireworks display.... Always on display is a sense of concentrated, spiky, efficient power., The themes of Sarah Hall's fifth novel, The Wolf Border, interlock like gears: men and women together, family, the animal/human divide, the idea of wilderness...Dazzling is her ability to distill so much into the pages of this completely satisfying novel., To enter into a world created by Sarah Hall is to step into a landscape that is feral and alive....The seven stories in Sudden Traveler merit savoring slowly: several of them reward rereading. Hall's prose is briny and sensual....Her lyricism....reveals the influence of James Salter, but it's a voice, fierce and unapologetic, uniquely her own.
Dewey Decimal823.92
Edition DescriptionUnabridged Edition
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