Hourglass: A 'beautiful, funny, profound' (New Statesman) debut novel about love and loss
Autor Keiran Goddarden Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 mar 2023
A short, exquisite novel about love, loss and making sense of the world - as heartbreakingly moving as it is outrageous and funny
'A universal love story' Guardian
'Beautiful, funny, profound ... read it in one glowing session' New Statesman
'A book for anyone who ever has been or ever will be heartbroken. So that's everyone.' Hollie McNish
Love builds up little by little and that's why it makes people reach for words like root and sediment and other words to do with rocks and trees. But what about the dismantling? Does it happen that way too? Because it feels like it is happening much, much faster. And I am reaching for words like landslide and like wave and like storm ...
Exquisitely crafted, wildly imaginative and as darkly funny as it is moving, Hourglass is a revolutionary love story. It turns time upside down, combs the intimate wreckage of heartbreak for something universal, and asks what it means to lose what you love.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780349144986
ISBN-10: 0349144982
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Abacus
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0349144982
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Abacus
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Beautiful, funny, profound ... Read it in one glowing session
The charms of Hourglass, like those of the narrator himself, are insidious. This is a sad book that is somehow wickedly fun to read
An arresting, exquisitely told love story ... if ever a book could be read as a pilgrimage to discover what the heart finds sacred, this is it.
Hourglass burnishes its ideas of love and agony with an almost mystical attention to feeling. This book truly glows in the heart of the reader
Evocative, ecstatic, and saturated with off-kilter wit, Hourglass renders heartbreak as both vividly, luminously particular, and intensely, intimately familiar. There are lines from this remarkable book etched all over my memory, indelible
This book is such a sneaky head f*ck - an epic poem in an ancient style about the brutalities of modern love, a masculine interrogation of feminine heartbreak, a really beautiful way to spend an evening
Hourglass will stay with me for a long time. Hypnotic.
A book for anyone who ever has been or ever will be heartbroken. So that's everyone.
A stunning reimagining of the love story ... every word shines new and true
Shockingly intimate and devastatingly funny, bleak and true
This book is a world. A broken dance floor of glass and gold, so rare and precious you barely believe it is real, but haunts you all day like a song. Vivid and brilliant.
This is high-wire writing: a novel where every sentence counts. They add up to something profoundly honest and truly magical
This is a beautiful book: by turns tough and tender, acerbically funny and deeply humane. Keiran Goddard's mind is a marvel. We are lucky to have him.
A story of doomed romance as touching as it is abstract
A universal love story
Beautiful and very funny
'Beautiful, funny, profound ... a story about two people falling in love, one person falling out of it, and the other coming to terms with their loss' New Statesman
Boy meets girl.
Boy loses girl.
Boy loses mind ...
'A devastatingly funny contemporary love story ... infused with reflections on the working world, class, faith, and the wreckage that comes with a soul suffocated by the underbelly of a city. If ever a book could be read as a pilgrimage to discover what the heart finds sacred, this is it' Irish Times
'This book is such a sneaky headf*ck ... beautiful' Lena Dunham
'A book for anyone who ever has been or ever will be heartbroken. So that's everyone' Hollie McNish
The charms of Hourglass, like those of the narrator himself, are insidious. This is a sad book that is somehow wickedly fun to read
An arresting, exquisitely told love story ... if ever a book could be read as a pilgrimage to discover what the heart finds sacred, this is it.
Hourglass burnishes its ideas of love and agony with an almost mystical attention to feeling. This book truly glows in the heart of the reader
Evocative, ecstatic, and saturated with off-kilter wit, Hourglass renders heartbreak as both vividly, luminously particular, and intensely, intimately familiar. There are lines from this remarkable book etched all over my memory, indelible
This book is such a sneaky head f*ck - an epic poem in an ancient style about the brutalities of modern love, a masculine interrogation of feminine heartbreak, a really beautiful way to spend an evening
Hourglass will stay with me for a long time. Hypnotic.
A book for anyone who ever has been or ever will be heartbroken. So that's everyone.
A stunning reimagining of the love story ... every word shines new and true
Shockingly intimate and devastatingly funny, bleak and true
This book is a world. A broken dance floor of glass and gold, so rare and precious you barely believe it is real, but haunts you all day like a song. Vivid and brilliant.
This is high-wire writing: a novel where every sentence counts. They add up to something profoundly honest and truly magical
This is a beautiful book: by turns tough and tender, acerbically funny and deeply humane. Keiran Goddard's mind is a marvel. We are lucky to have him.
A story of doomed romance as touching as it is abstract
A universal love story
Beautiful and very funny
'Beautiful, funny, profound ... a story about two people falling in love, one person falling out of it, and the other coming to terms with their loss' New Statesman
Boy meets girl.
Boy loses girl.
Boy loses mind ...
'A devastatingly funny contemporary love story ... infused with reflections on the working world, class, faith, and the wreckage that comes with a soul suffocated by the underbelly of a city. If ever a book could be read as a pilgrimage to discover what the heart finds sacred, this is it' Irish Times
'This book is such a sneaky headf*ck ... beautiful' Lena Dunham
'A book for anyone who ever has been or ever will be heartbroken. So that's everyone' Hollie McNish