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Up Against the Night

Up Against the Night

by Cartwright Justin (Author)

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    Paperback 2016

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Synopsis

"A gratifyingly unsound psychological odyssey . . . Cartwright destabilizes the novel's placid surface with aftershocks of historical tragedies." - The New York Times Book Review

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Published: 11 Aug 2016
ISBN 10: 1408858258
ISBN 13: 9781408858257
Book Overview: From Whitbread Novel Award-winning and Booker Prize-shortlisted author Justin Cartwright comes an intimate exploration of one man's relationship with South Africa and its turbulent history

Media Reviews
Justin Cartwright is one of our best novelists * Daily Telegraph *
Few living British novelists write English fiction quite as well as Cartwright -- Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *
One of our finest novelists * Independent *
This is Cartwright at his best, delivering a strong story with skill and feeling * Mail on Sunday *
Cartwright is as accomplished as anyone writing fiction today * Scotsman *
He's very good. He has such control, every sentence. Such ease. -- Jim Crace * Irish Times *
A story where emotions are inescapably linked to the land of one's birth and paradise is spoilt by the worm in the bud. Brilliant * The Lady *
Author Bio
Justin Cartwright's novels include the Booker-shortlisted In Every Face I Meet, the Whitbread Novel Award-winner Leading the Cheers, the acclaimed White Lightning, shortlisted for the 2002 Whitbread Novel Award, The Promise of Happiness, selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club and winner of the 2005 Hawthornden Prize, The Song Before It Is Sung, To Heaven By Water, Other People's Money, winner of the Spears novel of the year and, most recently, the acclaimed Lion Heart. Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa and lives in London. @justincartwrig1