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Falling in love with someone allows for two possible narratives of your future: in one your love is returned; in the other it is betrayed. That is all. Nicholas and Chloe knew you couldn't create one possibility without the other.
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"When the future ended, Nicholas discovered, you left London and went to New York. Even at Christmas"... The opening lines of Glen Duncan's second novel, Love Remains, announce the enigma which lures the reader into this book. What is it in Nicholas's world that has come to an end, and what does it have to do with the worldly perversity of Mickey--the woman who moves him into a Manhattan apartment--and the student love story, told in flashback, which begins a few pages into the novel: "Six years earlier Nicholas had married Chloe". The five sections of the novel--"Love", "Blood", "Continue", "Water" and "Necessities"--present a numbingly truthful, sometimes ruthless, anatomisation of love, hate and sex between the two protagonists. At times, Duncan's probing reads like reportage, an account drawn up from a distance for a reader called upon to witness whatever it is that is about to happen; at others, the writing is full of effort and exhibition: "Breasts like appalled witnesses, blonde hair a smashed aureole on the pillow".
As the two plots begin to converge, however, that effort, its careful attention to the apparently mundane conversation between Nicholas and Chloe--Sunday morning conversation over the newspaper report of the new London Ripper, for example--begins to pay off. Described as a writer who can make the "ordinary remarkable", Duncan has managed to bring the commonplace strangeness of sexuality into contact with the different extremes of sexual violence in an uneasy, but finally compelling, novel. --Vicky Lebeau
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- PublisherGranta Books
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 186207299X
- ISBN 13 9781862072992
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Falling in love with someone allows for two possible narratives of your future: in one your love is returned; in the other it is betrayed. That is all. Nicholas and Chloe knew you couldn't create one possibility without the other. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR001828156
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Duncan, Glen. Love remains. London: Granta, 2000. First edition, first printing. Hardback, near fine in unclipped dustjacket. 277pp., contents clean and bright. "Duncan is a well-known and much-praised British author. Love Remains, Duncan's second novel, is almost relentlessly grim. Again it's a compliment, honest. There's no way you could tackle the topic Duncan does in this book without being a skillful craftsman, and Duncan really is an amazing writer" (Ludic Reader). RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. Seller Inventory # ABE-1637851098745
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