Riley, Gwendoline Joshua Spassky ISBN 13: 9780224076999

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Gwendoline Riley's third novel charts the peculiar final reckoning of an elusive yet highly charged romance. American playwright Joshua and English writer Natalie share a vexed five-year history of sporadic encounters, explosive drunkenness and failed intercourse, all spliced with the occasional sad intimation of true love. After the last crushing rejection, Natalie attempts to change her life back in Manchester, to put all memories of him behind her; but when he calls unexpectedly and asks her to come and meet him in the States she knows she actually has no choice at all...They turn up, independently, in Asheville, North Carolina, a place neither of them has ever been: in the middle, it seems, of nowhere. Their unspoken, and somehow dreadful intention is to find out if there ever was anything real between them - anything, that is, apart from the Atlantic Ocean. Whilst wandering about their sequestered arena, high in the Blue Ridge Mountains, or lying together for days in their cheap hotel room, they talk about their lives - about his ex-wife and her dead family - and come to a slow, surprising understanding. Beautifully observed and exquisitely written, Joshua Spassky poignantly explores the possibility of human connection, as these two young people try to reconcile themselves to all of life's bad endings, and finally wrest some meaning from their own mayfly existences.

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'...slender in size but not in ambition... Riley's power lies in
the precision of her language, pared-down sentences and unusual imagery...' -- The Observer

'A paucity of plot means it can feel like staring into space, but
the taut prose also demands a kind of cerebral workout' -- Scotland on Sunday - Rev'd Claire Black

'All three of Riley's novels have been stylish and fresh.' -- Joanna Biggs, Times Literary Supplement

'Riley writes with a Woolf-ish exactitude... A brilliant and
beautiful novel' -- The Times

'Riley's novels have been stylish and fresh...she's shown courage in sticking to her subject.'
-- LRB

'To read Riley is to be trapped inside a consciousness whose
self-pity, indulgence, petulance are offset by taut style, wry humour...'
-- Independent - Rev'd Anita Sethi

'[Joshua Spassky] reads like a hit of espresso, a short, intense
(like its author), headachey experience' -- The Herald - interview by Teddy Jamieson

`Great verve and invention... She takes the rain that covers
Manchester like a tent and transforms it into something beautiful'
-- Times Literary Supplement

`Moribund romance permeates every sentence of Gwendoline Riley's
perfectly penned third novel' -- Metro - Rev'd Tina Jackson

`an engaging read.'
-- Guardian: Rev'd Trezza Azzopardi
From the Publisher:
'This is a young writer of immense promise.' Literary Review

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  • PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
  • Publication date2007
  • ISBN 10 022407699X
  • ISBN 13 9780224076999
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages176
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