Summary
Cold Water: A Poignant Tale of Longing and Escape
Carmel McKisco, a wry and volatile twenty-year-old, works nights in a Manchester dive bar, cut off from her family and carefree ex, Tony. She forges strange alliances with her customers, daydreaming of escaping to Cornwall.
Cold Water is a poignant picaresque of barmaids and barflies, eccentric individuals tethered to their pasts. Carmel nurtures fixations on her lost love and a washed-up singer from Macclesfield.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099437154 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099437155 |
| Author: | Gwendoline Riley |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 14 May 2003 |
| Weight: | 117g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 9mm |
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Strikingly assured… A writer of unexpected sensibilities and uncompromising originality
Strikingly assured… A writer of unexpected sensibilities and uncompromising originality * Guardian *Cold Water is a thrilling pleasure… I don’t think I’ve read such a good début in years – Alan WarnerVivid and stylish and endlessly, surprisingly filled with perfect, unexpected images… a beautifully written book, utterly original and the most exciting thing to have been published this year… Fantastic * Big Issue *A truly original new voice in fiction. Her bleakly poetic first novel has an atmosphere all of its own: melancholy and profound yet shot through with the urgency of life and love – Shena Mackay
About The Author
Gwendoline Riley
Gwendoline Riley was born in 1979 and has published three other novels: Sick Notes, Joshua Spassky, which was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and won the Somerset Maugham Award, and Opposed Positions.
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