if nobody speaks of remakable things

Pengarang   : Jon Mcgregor
Genre            : Novel Dewasa
Penerbit        : bloomsburypbks
Tahun             : 2002
Tempat          : Edinburg
Kolasi            : 275 halaman
Kode Buku    : 823 GRE i
Abstrak          : 

On a street in a town in the North of England, perfectly ordinary people are doing totaly nornal things. children play cricket, window frames are painted, a couple argues, students pack up their belongings, and nameless people pass each other like every other day, interweaving yet never connecting. But a terrible event shatters the quiet of the summer evening and no one who witnesses it will ever be the same again.

'Even as it is shadowed by disaster, McGregor's careful prose is sharpened by anticipation and expextation. This is a novel of wonder's Observer.

'This novel owes as much to poetry as it does to prose. Its opening, an invocation of the life of the city, is strongly reminiscent of Auden's Night Mail in its hypnotic portrait of Industrialised society ... An assured debut' Erica Wagner, The Times

'Overflows with prose as poetry ... a beautiful novel ... unexpected, shocking, moving' Big Issue

'This is an ordinary world, shabby and melancholy, but McGregor describes it with mesmeric power ... you won't read anything much more poignant than this' Daily Telegraph

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