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The Storyteller
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Pub Date
Apr 01 2017
| Archive Date
Mar 30 2018
Description
With a claustrophobic intensity of vision, this book is a challenging, beautifully written novel of disconnect, insanity, and reawakening. A young woman regains consciousness. An elegant old lady degenerates into flailing madness. A beggar counts small change on Westminster Bridge. Hot summer afternoons transform into autumn and winter days and back to summer again. At first, Iris and Rachel are linked only by their illness, but as they heal they grow closer, and soon they are enmeshed in a relationship neither can escape. When Iris insists on writing Rachel’s biography, the younger woman is unable to resist; but is her life being reported or created by her self-appointed storyteller?
With a claustrophobic intensity of vision, this book is a challenging, beautifully written novel of disconnect, insanity, and reawakening. A young woman regains consciousness. An elegant old lady...
Description
With a claustrophobic intensity of vision, this book is a challenging, beautifully written novel of disconnect, insanity, and reawakening. A young woman regains consciousness. An elegant old lady degenerates into flailing madness. A beggar counts small change on Westminster Bridge. Hot summer afternoons transform into autumn and winter days and back to summer again. At first, Iris and Rachel are linked only by their illness, but as they heal they grow closer, and soon they are enmeshed in a relationship neither can escape. When Iris insists on writing Rachel’s biography, the younger woman is unable to resist; but is her life being reported or created by her self-appointed storyteller?
A Note From the Publisher
THE AUTHOR
Kate Armstrong was born in 1979 and grew up in the North of England. She studied English Literature at Oxford University, first at New College and then at Merton, where she wrote her DPhil on John Donne. She also held a lectureship at St Hugh's. Kate then followed a career in international business, writing her first novel, The Storyteller, on trains and flights and in hotel rooms. She is currently working more comfortably on her second.
THE AUTHOR
Kate Armstrong was born in 1979 and grew up in the North of England. She studied English Literature at Oxford University, first at New College and then at Merton, where she wrote her...
A Note From the Publisher
THE AUTHOR
Kate Armstrong was born in 1979 and grew up in the North of England. She studied English Literature at Oxford University, first at New College and then at Merton, where she wrote her DPhil on John Donne. She also held a lectureship at St Hugh's. Kate then followed a career in international business, writing her first novel, The Storyteller, on trains and flights and in hotel rooms. She is currently working more comfortably on her second.
Advance Praise
A strange, compelling work... A considerable
achievement.' Craig Raine
“This beautiful novel is not an easy read. It is a monologue written by
an unreliable source interspersed with snapshots of a possibly fuller truth.” The Contemporary Small Press Review
A strange, compelling work... A considerable
achievement.' Craig Raine
“This beautiful novel is not an easy read. It is a monologue written by an unreliable source interspersed with snapshots of a...
Advance Praise
A strange, compelling work... A considerable
achievement.' Craig Raine
“This beautiful novel is not an easy read. It is a monologue written by
an unreliable source interspersed with snapshots of a possibly fuller truth.” The Contemporary Small Press Review
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Paperback |
| ISBN |
9781910688236 |
| PRICE |
$13.95 (USD)
|
| PAGES |
240
|
Additional Information
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Paperback |
| ISBN |
9781910688236 |
| PRICE |
$13.95 (USD)
|
| PAGES |
240
|
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