The Next Step in the Dance - Hardcover

Gautreaux, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312181434 ISBN 13: 9780312181437

Publisher: Picador USA, 1998

Synopsis

Paul follows his young bride Colette as she leaves their small town for a better life in California and returns with her to Louisiana, where they must pick up the pieces of both their marriage and their livelihoods during the 1980s economic recession. Tour.

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Review:

[It] may tell an old, old story - that it is only when you are in danger of losing someone that you begin truly to appreciate them - but it has rarely been told so well ... the depiction of his native landscape, with its Spanish moss and snapping turtles, its "white heat and green humidity" is superb. (Mark Sanderson, Sunday Telegraph)

A mighty first novel, told with cinematic grip . . . Gautreaux himself takes the next step in the moody, sweet dance of southern literature. (GQ)

A smartly turned-out first novel, about the push and pull of a young Louisiana couple, that holds you snug and won't let go (Entertainment Weekly)

Marries the power of a first novel with the wisdom of a second . . . The rippingest novel of the year, with writing that dances and swells like a jitterbug on a hot skillet. (Philadelphia Enquirer)

Gautreaux chronicles the Louisiana landscape with loving precision and insight. Every sound, every smell, is just right . . . This is both an elegy for a disappearing way of life and a celebration of enduring values. (New Orleans Times-Picayune)

Book Description:

The mesmerising new novel from the acclaimed author of THE CLEARING - 'An extraordinary novel, one of the best I've read in years' Annie Proulx

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador USA
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0312181434
• ISBN 13: 9780312181437
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 340