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Mark Gartside

Teoksen What Will Survive tekijä

4 teosta 18 jäsentä 1 Review

Tekijän teokset

What Will Survive (1600) 12 kappaletta
The Last to Know (2013) 4 kappaletta
Zwei und zwei: Roman (2012) 1 kappale

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Sukupuoli
male
Kansalaisuus
England
UK
Syntymäpaikka
Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
Asuinpaikat
Maine, USA
Ammatit
novelist

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LOVED it! Graham Melton is a fantastic character -- both as a teenage boy chasing the girl of his dreams and as a single dad, who we follow in alternating chapters. The links between past and present are beautifully handled -- incentive to read on is delivered in every chapter, invisibly and compellingly. A real talent for any author, and truly impressive in a debut. There are true laugh-out-loud moments and enough "philosophical truth" to make me want to reread just for those sentences that made me look at the world in a little different light. Again, impressive!
The publisher's blurb compares Mark Gartside to Nick Hornby, and I whole-heartedly agree. They also compare him to David Nicholls. Here, I disagree. ONE DAY was an interesting story arc and an excellent fly-on-the-London-wall experience for the reader, but Gartside's WHAT WILL SURVIVE out-delivered Nicholls' latest by miles.
If you're after a resonant father-son novel with some good old fashioned Labour versus Tory conversations over a pint, and if you're strong enough to handle some genuine tear-jerking scenes, this one pays dividends.
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nancyfreund | Apr 19, 2013 |

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Teokset
4
Jäseniä
18
Suosituimmuussija
#630,789
Arvio (tähdet)
½ 3.3
Kirja-arvosteluja
1
ISBN:t
10
Kielet
2