The Faithful Couple
$21.72
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
11 April 2016
Summary
California, 1993: Neil Collins and Adam Tayler, two young British men on the cusp of adulthood, meet at a hostel in San Diego. They strike up a friendship that, while platonic, feels as intoxicating as a romance; they travel up the coast together, harmlessly competitive, innocently collusive, wrapped up in each other. On a camping trip to Yosemite they lead each other to behave in ways that, years later, they will desperately regret.
The story of a friendship built on a shared guilt a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349140582 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349140588 |
| Author: | A.D. Miller |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 11 April 2016 |
| Weight: | 248g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Age Of Legends |
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Powerful and moving. I loved The Faithful Couple
Compelling, elegant and deeply insightful. You won’t soon forget it
The Faithful Couple is a gripping work of unsettling power and graceThe book The Faithful Couple most brings to mind is the bestselling One Day by David Nicholls … but Miller has the edge on Nicholls as a writer, and is skilled at the economical turn of phrase. Friendship, he writes, is “a luxury in any utilitarian calculus” - “no money, no sex, no tangible pay-off of any kind”. Except for readers of The Faithful Couple, who reap dividends - Sunday TelegraphLucid and engaging … The Faithful Couple is a thoughtful, frequently witty and insightful book - GuardianAbout The Author
A.D. Miller
A. D. Miller studied literature at Cambridge and Princeton. His first novel, Snowdrops - a study in moral degradation set in modern Russia - was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Awards, the CWA Gold Dagger and the Galaxy National Book Awards; it has been translated into 25 languages.
He is also the author of The Earl of Petticoat Lane, an acclaimed memoir of immigration, class, the Blitz and the underwear industry. A. D. Miller is Writer at Large for The Economist; he was formerly the magazine’s Moscow Correspondent and Political Editor. He lives in London with his wife and children.
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