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The Standing Pool Hardback - 2008

by Adam Thorpe

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Adam Thorpe’s first novel, Ulverton, was published in 1992. Since then he has written six other novels — most recently, Between Each Breath, two collections of stories and four books of poetry. He lives in France with his wife and family.

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  • Title The Standing Pool
  • Author Adam Thorpe
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 423
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Jonathan Cape, London
  • Publication date 2008-06-24
  • ISBN 9780224079419 / 0224079417
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Children and strangers, Social isolation
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008426389
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.914

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Jonathan Cape, 2008. Hardcover. As New. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT. Book in as new, unread, FINE/FINE condition this despite small push top spine. SIGNED & DATED (19/6/08) . Synopsis: Two Cambridge academics, the historians Nick and Sarah Mallinson, take a sabbatical with their three small and lively girls in a remote Languedoc farmhouse. But the farmhouse has its own histories, rather more fraught than those the Mallinsons are used to dealing with on the page. Nick once wrote that 'History is more about amnesia than memory.' But what if that amnesia is a saving grace - disturbed at one's peril, like the murk of a standing pool? As the illusion of Eden retreats, the couple feel the vulnerability of being among strangers, and being strangers themselves - even in their own place, and even to their own children.Sarah frets about the danger of the swimming pool and the nightly visits of the wild boar, while Nick is more concerned by the guns of the local hunters. Meanwhile, however, there is Jean-Luc,… Read more
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