Negative Space

Strachan, Zoe

ISBN 10: 0330485784 / ISBN 13: 9780330485784

Published by Picador Press, London, England, United Kingdom, 2003

About this Item

The book is signed by the author on the full title page. The book is very good with slight edge wear and a crease at upper corner on back cover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Negative Space
• Publisher: Picador Press, London, England, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330485784
• ISBN 13: 9780330485784
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Edition, Second Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Dying at twenty four is unnatural. But that's what Simon did, leaving his sister in shock, alone and haunted by the past. In the harsh but strangely comforting anonymity of Glasgow, she moves dazedly from artists' studios to smoky pubs, clutching at comfort wherever she can find it, in drink or sex. Her already fractured world seems now to have been torn apart, as she struggles with the question of whether secrets are better exposed or buried. But an unexpected trip to Orkney at last offers a change in her tense and frightening world. NEGATIVE SPACE is a harshly honest yet beautiful novel, and one of the most powerful debuts of recent times.

'Strachan has a perfect eye for the small detail of suffering . . . The intimate, first-person voice drifts between past and present tense with astonishing effectiveness . . . This is a complex, mature novel with thought-provoking, well-crafted themes' Independent on Sunday

About the Author

Born in 1975, Zoë Strachan grew up in Kilmarnock and currently lives in Glasgow. Her first novel, Negative Space, won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year Award.