Spill Simmer Falter Wither |
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| Author:
| Baume, Sara |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78515-042-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2015 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House
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| Imprint: | William Heinemann |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $32.99 |
Book Description:
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LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD
You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window: COMPASSIONATE & TOLERANT OWNER. A PERSON WITHOUT OTHER PETS & WITHOUT CHILDREN UNDER FOUR.
A misfit man finds a misfit dog. Ray, aged fifty-seven, âe~too old for starting over, too young for giving upâe(tm), and One Eye, a vicious little bugger, smaller than expected, a good ratter. Both are...
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LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD
You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window: COMPASSIONATE & TOLERANT OWNER. A PERSON WITHOUT OTHER PETS & WITHOUT CHILDREN UNDER FOUR.
A misfit man finds a misfit dog. Ray, aged fifty-seven, âe~too old for starting over, too young for giving upâe(tm), and One Eye, a vicious little bugger, smaller than expected, a good ratter. Both are accustomed to being alone, unloved, outcast âe" but they quickly find in each other a strange companionship of sorts. As spring turns to summer, their relationship grows and intensifies, until a savage act forces them to abandon the precarious life theyâe(tm)d established, and take to the road.
Spill Simmer Falter Wither is a wholly different kind of love story: a devastating portrait of loneliness, loss and friendship, and of the scars that are more than skin-deep. Written with tremendous empathy and insight, in lyrical language that surprises and delights, this is an extraordinary and heartbreaking debut by a major new talent