by A. L. Kennedy (Author)
The ferociously talented author of Original Bliss and On Bullfighting" "offers this haunting tale of two forlorn people who find in each other a hope and love as genuine and original as this marvelous book in which they come to life. M. Jennifer Wilson is a mid-thirties radio announcer living in Glasgow. She shares a house with Art and Liz, two typical Scotland thirtysomethings, but her life takes a drastic turn with the arrival of her new housemate, an elusive man who glows in the dark and can't remember his name. He soon reveals himself to be none other than Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, the famed writer and duelist of eighteenth-century France, and what unfolds is a love story stark and surreal, tender and humane.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Published: 04 May 1995
ISBN 10: 0224039741
ISBN 13: 9780224039741
Prizes: Winner of Encore Award 1996 and Scottish Arts Council Book Award 1995 and Saltire Literary Award 1995. Shortlisted for McVities Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year 1995.