A Stranger City
Winner of the Wingate Literary Prize 2020
$35.06
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
13 October 2020
Summary
’[A] shimmering new novel … Grant’s book is as much a love letter to London as a lament, an ode to pink skin after sunny days and lost gloves waving from railings’ - The Economist
‘A compelling portrait of contemporary London, it’s a novel fit for shifting, uncertain times’ - Suzi Feay, Financial Times
‘A STRANGER CITY feels like a very important novel for right now: no politically ponderous diatribe but a witty, sunlounger-accessible …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349010489 |
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| ISBN-10: | 034901048X |
| Author: | Linda Grant |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 13 October 2020 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
Grant is superb on London life, which is at once atomised and seen as a web of unlikely connections. However, as her by turns humorous and horrifying tale circles and deepens, her deft peeling back of the capital’s layers raises increasingly unsettling questions about where all of us might be heading - Daily Mail
[A] shimmering new novel … Grant’s book is as much a love letter to London as a lament, an ode to pink skin after sunny days and lost gloves waving from railings - The EconomistThe novel is fleet-footed … Londoners of all ages, backgrounds and hues throng the novel … The plot’s seemingly haphazard quality mirrors the contingency of urban life but the way Grant makes even the minor characters flare into life gives the novel richness and depth. A compelling portrait of contemporary London, it’s a novel fit for shifting, uncertain times - Financial TimesGrant conveys how these sentiments affect her individuals with insightful emotional accuracy - Sunday TimesAbout The Author
Linda Grant
Linda Grant is author of four non-fiction books and eight novels. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000, the Lettre Ulysses Prize for Literary Reportage in 2006 and holds honorary doctorates from the University of York and Liverpool John Moores University. The Clothes on Their Backs was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008 and went on to win the South Bank Show Award; The Dark Circle was shortlisted for the 2017 Women’s Prize for Fiction; A Stranger City won the 2000 Wingate Literary Prize. Linda Grant lives in London.
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