Glover's Mistake - Hardcover
From a rising British novelist, an artful meditation on love and life in contemporary London
When David Pinner introduces his former teacher, the American artist Ruth Marks, to his friend and flatmate James Glover, he unwittingly sets in place a love triangle loaded with tension, guilt, and heartbreak. As David plays reluctant witness (and more) to James and Ruth's escalating love affair, he must come to terms with his own blighted emotional life. Set in the London art scene awash with new money and intellectual pretension, in the sleek galleries and posh restaurants of a Britannia resurgent with cultural and economic power, Nick Laird's insightful and drolly satirical novel vividly portrays three people whose world gradually fractures along the ineluctable fault lines of desire, truth, deceit, and jealousy. With wit, compassion, and acuity, Laird explores the very nature of contemporary romance-"The Death of Love in Modern Culture," as David puts it in one of his dyspeptic blog posts-among damaged souls whose hearts and heads never quite line up long enough for them to achieve true happiness.
When David Pinner introduces his former teacher, the American artist Ruth Marks, to his friend and flatmate James Glover, he unwittingly sets in place a love triangle loaded with tension, guilt, and heartbreak. As David plays reluctant witness (and more) to James and Ruth's escalating love affair, he must come to terms with his own blighted emotional life. Set in the London art scene awash with new money and intellectual pretension, in the sleek galleries and posh restaurants of a Britannia resurgent with cultural and economic power, Nick Laird's insightful and drolly satirical novel vividly portrays three people whose world gradually fractures along the ineluctable fault lines of desire, truth, deceit, and jealousy. With wit, compassion, and acuity, Laird explores the very nature of contemporary romance-"The Death of Love in Modern Culture," as David puts it in one of his dyspeptic blog posts-among damaged souls whose hearts and heads never quite line up long enough for them to achieve true happiness.
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" At once a penetrating work of literary analysis and a riveting historical narrative."
-Nathaniel Philbrick
"A searching, heartfelt meditation on the mistakes of youth (and beyond)."
--The New York Times Book Review "What takes this tale beyond the perils of triangulation is Laird's savvy portrayal of the cultural elite, and his insights into the deft deceptions of love."
--O, The Oprah Magazine "By the time you realize just what a dangerous writer Nick Laird is, it's too late to break away. . . . Laird's [novels] glide along with the language of a writer who can make every line work elegantly."
--The Washington Post "Laird convenes a cast of enjoyable catty art-world types. . . . The cultural insights are persuasive,"
--The New Yorker "Nick Laird (gifted author of the highly praised Utterly Monkey) presents each character in the round, fully, convincingly, and with a compassion liberally spiked with cool humor and an exhilarating originality of expression."
--The Boston Globe
About the Author:
-Nathaniel Philbrick
"A searching, heartfelt meditation on the mistakes of youth (and beyond)."
--The New York Times Book Review "What takes this tale beyond the perils of triangulation is Laird's savvy portrayal of the cultural elite, and his insights into the deft deceptions of love."
--O, The Oprah Magazine "By the time you realize just what a dangerous writer Nick Laird is, it's too late to break away. . . . Laird's [novels] glide along with the language of a writer who can make every line work elegantly."
--The Washington Post "Laird convenes a cast of enjoyable catty art-world types. . . . The cultural insights are persuasive,"
--The New Yorker "Nick Laird (gifted author of the highly praised Utterly Monkey) presents each character in the round, fully, convincingly, and with a compassion liberally spiked with cool humor and an exhilarating originality of expression."
--The Boston Globe
Nick Laird was born in Northern Ireland in 1975 and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. He is the author of two collections of poetry and the acclaimed novel Utterly Monkey. He currently teaches creative writing at Columbia University in New York.
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- PublisherViking Pr
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0670020974
- ISBN 13 9780670020973
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