- Series:John-Cromer, disability, Still's Disease, coming-of-age
‘I’m not sure that I can claim to have taken my place in the human alphabet, even as its honorary twenty-seventh letter. I’m more like a specialised piece of punctuation, a cedilla, umlaut or pilcrow, hard to track down on the keyboard of a computer or typewriter.
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Contemplative, prestige, character-led and spare.
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Adam Mars-Jones
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 544
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, Limited, Faber & Faber, JC Lattès
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780571217038
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“The spring I learned to drive, the cherry tree in front of our house in Bourne End flowered as never before.”
Adam Mars-Jones's first book of stories, ***Lantern Lecture***, was published in 1981 and won a Somerset Maugham Award. In 1983 and again in 1993 he was named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, despite not having produced a novel at the time. His Zen status as an acclaimed novelist without a novel was dented by the appearance of ***The Waters of Thirst***, and only suffered further with the appearance of ***Pilcrow***, described by Margaret Drabble as 'one of the most remarkable novels I have read in recent years'. He regularly reviews for the Observer and the LRB.
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