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Caroline's Bikini

Caroline's Bikini

by KirstyGunn (Author), Kirsty Gunn (Author)

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    Hardcover 2018

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Synopsis

'Alright' I said, 'I'll try...' This is how Emily Stuart opens her intricate tale of a classic love affair that becomes Caroline's Bikini: a swirling cocktail of infatuation, obsession, and imagination. The moment that Emily's friend Evan Gordonstone - a successful middle-aged financier - meets Caroline Beresford - a glamorous former horsewoman, and now housewife, hostess, and landlady - there is a 'PING!' At least, that's how Evan describes it to Emily when he persuades her to record his story: the story of falling into unrequited love, which is as old as Western literature itself. Thus begins a hypnotic series of conversations set against the beguiling backdrop of West London's bars, fuelled in intensity by endless G&Ts and Q&As. From the depths of mid-winter to July's hot swelter, Emily's narration of Evan's passion for Caroline will take him to the brink of his own destruction. Written in a voice so playful, so charismatic, and so thoughtfully aware of the responsibilities of fiction it can only be by Kirsty Gunn, Caroline's Bikini is a swooning portrait of courtly love - in a modern world not celebrated for its restraint and abstraction. Ready. Steady. Go!

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 352
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 21 Jun 2018
ISBN 10: 0571339328
ISBN 13: 9780571339327
Book Overview: A gorgeously intoxicating new novel about the nature of love from the award-winning author of The Big Music.

Media Reviews
Remarkable ... demands that readers put themselves into the same headspace as they would before embarking on a novel by, say, William Faulkner, James Joyce or Woolf. --Financial Times

Gunn has written a blissfully anarchic and inspiring novel about the futility of writing; a delightful paradox in itself. --Literary Review


Gunn's playful and endearing voice makes it a joy to read. Who knew postmodernism could be this fun? --Tatler
.. .when restless innovators such as Ali Smith, Nicola Barker, Sarah Hall, Will Self, Jon McGregor, Deborah Levy, Gwendoline Riley and Eimear McBride set much of the agenda for fiction...Kirsty Gunn belongs in this exemplary few... --Financial Times
'[a] bold and brainy enterprise.' --Observer
Kirsty Gunn is a deep thinker; a maverick, an entertainer, and a great writer. --Deborah Levy

[Her writing is] a perfect, witty riposte to that casual dismissal, and a lesson in how much goes on beneath the surface of everyday life ... Gunn traces hidden emotional topographies with insight and attentiveness to form and language which marks her previous work ... delicate, unsettling and revelatory. --Observer

An author of undeniable talent. --Sunday Times

Gunn has always been a notably original writer ... Her writing is extraordinarily controlled, rich, and melodic ... --Guardian

Author Bio
Kirsty Gunn is an internationally awarded writer who published her first novel with Faber in 1994 and since then eight works of fiction, including short stories, as well as a collection of fragments and meditations, and essays. She is Professor of Writing Practice and Study at the University of Dundee and lives in London and Scotland with her husband and two daughters.