Holiday [electronic resource]
Stanley Middleton2010
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THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING NOVEL
2019 marked the centenary of Stanley Middleton's birth. Holiday, winner of the
1974 Booker Prize, remains the most celebrated and popular novel from 'the
Chekhov of suburbia'.
Edwin Fisher has fled to a seaside resort of his childhood past to try to come
to terms with the death of his baby son and the collapse of his marriage to Meg.
On this strange and lonely holiday, as he seeks to understand what went wrong,
Edwin must find somea way to think about what he has been and decide upon where
he can go next.
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'At first glance, or even at second, Stanley Middleton's world is easily
recognizable... The excellence of art, for Middleton, is an exact vision of real
things as they are. And because he is himself so exact an observer, his world at
third glance can seem strange and disturbing or newly and brilliantly lit with
colour.' A.S. Byatt
'We need Stanley Middleton to remind us what the novel is abou...
Main title:
Holiday [electronic resource] / Stanley Middleton
Author:
Stanley Middleton, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Cornerstone Digital, 2010
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781407090481
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
434591
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