Meeting the English
"In response to a job advertisement, Struan Robertson, orphan, genius, and just seventeen, leaves his dour native town in Scotland, and arrives in London in the freakishly hot summer of 1989. His job, he finds, is to care for playwright and one-time literary star Phillip Prys, dumbfounded and paraly...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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| Summary: | "In response to a job advertisement, Struan Robertson, orphan, genius, and just seventeen, leaves his dour native town in Scotland, and arrives in London in the freakishly hot summer of 1989. His job, he finds, is to care for playwright and one-time literary star Phillip Prys, dumbfounded and paralyzed by a massive stroke, because, though two teenage children, two wives, and a literary agent all rattle 'round Phillip's large house, they are each too busy with their peculiar obsessions to do it themselves. As the city bakes, Struan finds himself tangled in a midsummer's dream of mistaken identity, giddying property prices, wild swimming, and overwhelming passions. For everyone, it is to be a life-changing summer. Meeting the English is a bright book about dark subjects--a tale about kindness and its limits, told with love. Spiked with witty dialogue and jostling with gleeful, zesty characters, it is a glorious debut novel from an acclaimed writer of poetry, non-fiction, and short stories"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 310 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781250059772 (hbk.) 1250059771 (hbk.) |
| Author Notes: | KATE CLANCHY is a British writer: she was born and grew up in Scotland but now lives in England with her family. She has won Forward and Somerset Maugham Awards for her poetry; the Writer's Guild Best Book Award for her highly acclaimed memoir, Antigona and Me; and the BBC National Short Story Award. She also reviews for the Guardian, and broadcasts, writes, and adapts for BBC Radio. Meeting the English is her first novel, and was shortlisted for the Costa Prize. |
