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The American Lover: Rose Tremain

The American Lover: Rose Tremain

by RoseTremain (Author)

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Synopsis

From the author of The Gustav Sonata A seductive new collection of stories from the Orange Prize-winning author of The Road Home and Restoration Trapped in a London flat, Beth remembers a transgressive love affair in 1960s' Paris. The most famous writer in Russia takes his last breath in a stationmaster's cottage, miles from Moscow. A father, finally free of his daughter's demands, embarks on a long swim from his Canadian lakeside retreat. And in the grandest house of all, Danni the Polish housekeeper catches the eye of an enigmatic visitor. Over a million Rose Tremain books sold `A writer of exceptional talent ... Tremain is a writer who understands every emotion' Independent I `There are few writers out there with the dexterity or emotional intelligence to rival that of the great Rose Tremain' Irish Times `Tremain has the painterly genius of an Old Master, and she uses it to stunning effect' The Times `Rose Tremain is one of the very finest British novelists' Salman Rushdie `Tremain is a writer of exemplary vision and particularity. The fictional world is rendered with extraordinary vividness' Marcel Theroux, Guardian

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01 Oct 2015
ISBN 10: 0099548445
ISBN 13: 9780099548447
Book Overview: A seductive new collection from 'a magnificent story-teller' (Independent on Sunday)

Media Reviews
Powerful, involving, wide-ranging collection -- Gerard Woodward * Guardian *
Tremain presents a large cast of ill-starred characters, each laid low by their heart... But even in the most melancholy stories, Tremain delivers slivers of hope or humour to temper the tragedies... This collection highlights with subtlety and grace just how human it is to get things wrong * Daily Telegraph *
Warm, moving, often humorous and sometimes heartbreaking -- Michelle Margherita, 5 stars * Stylist *
A seemingly effortless performance... the writing glides along, elegantly dropping details that suggest a whole way of life -- Phil Baker * The Sunday Times *
The American Lover is...superb, each story a perfectly cut jewel -- Neel Mukherjee * Irish Times *
With a keen ear for dialogue and restless changes of scene, she shows desire and disappointment to be universal, timeless emotions -- Nicholas Blincoe * Sunday Telegraph *
Tremain's stories offer an elegant snapshot of other people's lives that leaves an emotional impact long after you close the book -- Michelle Margherita * Stylist *
Whatever Tremain's canvas, she has a knack of infecting the reader with her own absorption. The cumulative effect of The American Lover is thus deeply satisfying and unsettling -- Rosemary Goring * Herald Scotland *
With her razor-sharp talent, Rose Tremain hooks you in by line one and never lets you go. In these sophisticated short stories she doesn't allow a single sentence to slouch -- Kerry Fowler * Sainsbury's Magazine *
Tremain's a gifted storyteller with an enviable lightness of touch -- Sebastian Shakespeare * Tatler *
A pleasure to read -- Sarah A. Smith * Literary Review *
There is nothing blousy or indulgent about Tremain's prose - quite the opposite. Her sentences have an arrow-like quality that strikes to the heart, and as a...master of the form, she knows exactly what to leave out. The result is a superb collection that will leave you hungry for more -- Stephanie Cross * Lady *
In this delightful collection of short stories, the award-winning author burrows deep into the essence of her characters so we're immersed in their lives in just a few pages * Bella *
Stunning collection of short stories -- Deirdre O'brien * Sunday Mirror *
Tremain's canvas is broad, flitting numbly through time and the breadth of human emotions * Sunday Express *
Rose Tremain can turn her hand to almost anything, be it glittering historical fiction or contemporary social realism, and this skillful new collection brims over with human feeling * Metro *
Understated and unshowy, Tremain is a consummate stylist * Mail on Sunday *
In these wide-ranging stories - playful, elaborate, but never showy...- she allows her readers to feel similarly imperiled but, mercifully, unobserved -- Alex Clark * New Statesman *
Author Bio
Rose Tremain's novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won several awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Dylan Thomas Award (The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country). Her most recent novel, The Gustav Sonata, was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. It won the National Jewish Book Award in the US, the South Bank Sky Arts Award in the UK and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes. www.rosetremain.co.uk