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A Place to Stop (Salt Modern Fiction)

A Place to Stop (Salt Modern Fiction)

by SusanWicks (Author)

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    Paperback 2012

    $11.55
Synopsis

In an idyllic village in south-west France, a web of lives interconnect, ready to unravel at the first touch. Alex is running from a teenage love-affair that went badly wrong at home in England. Julien, the retired village schoolmaster, is struggling with loneliness and insomnia. Pete has everything - a wife who loves him, an existence of ease and freedom - yet he's frightened of something. Magali wants so much more than the life her parents had. And Damien's angry with all of it. And then through their world passes a walker, or a pilgrim, on the old Santiago de Compostela pilgrim path. He accidentally moves a rock a couple of metres and continues on his way. And by the time he has travelled a few more slow days towards Santiago, the lives of every inhabitant of this small community will be irrevocably changed.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Publisher: Salt Publishing
Published: 10 Feb 2012
ISBN 10: 190777307X
ISBN 13: 9781907773075
Book Overview: The stories in the novel intersect and reflect on one another. Nothing is fixed, these are lives still being lived by people in a sensuously present locality which, like dreamers, they go beyond. -- David Constantine I was compelled: impressed by the mixture of gravity and vivacity that informs every aspect of the novel. I recognised the world it portrays and yet I learned from it too. And all spun from a capacious, fine prose that sounds the depths and resonances of its sentences with admirable clarity. -- Rachel Cusk This is a morality tale, in its most satisfying guise: a commentary on the disposition of our times, its temptations and its punishments, and at the same time a book of human character, of people's needs and losses, expectations and disappointments, of their weaknesses and their fragile unexamined strengths. I recognised the world it portrays and yet I learned from it too. And all spun from a capacious, fine prose that sounds the depths and resonances of its sentences with admirable clarity. -- Rachel Cusk

Media Reviews

What a treat: at last someone has solved the problem of how to experiment, con brio, with time and form in the novel and yet keep it readable, accessible and full of heart.

(of: Little Thing)

-- Jo Shapcott * Independent on Sunday *

Susan Wicks's prose works find haunting new shapes for the practical and emotional dilemmas specific to modern women's lives.

-- Stephen Burt * Times Literary Supplement *

She is neither naive nor inexperienced, and yet her writing has a bloom on it. There's a fine surprise at the act of writing itself, and what it can accomplish.

-- Helen Dunmore * Times Literary Supplement *
Author Bio
Susan Wicks grew up in Kent, but has lived in France, Ireland and the US. She is the author of two previous novels, a short memoir, six collections of poetry and a book of stories. Cold Spring in Winter, her translation of the French poet Valerie Rouzeau, was shortlisted for Canada's international Griffin Prize and won the Scott-Moncrieff Prize for Literary Translation. Her most recent book, House of Tongues, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She is married with two adult daughters.