An Irresponsible Age

Author:   Lavinia Greenlaw
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:  

9780007156290


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   03 January 2006
Format:   Hardback
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A powerful, involving new novel, following on from the author's much-praised debut novel MARY GEORGE OF ALLNORTHOVER. An Irresponsible Age, Lavinia Greenlaw's new novel, is an intimate portrait of a family compelled by ways of living they should have outgrown and unable to face up to what really matters. Set in London in 1990, hesitant times with Thatcher still in power and the country stubbornly refusing to 'abandon an idea just because it proved to be a bad one', the book follows the life of Juliet Clough and her three siblings, all used to being held in place by each other but now rebounding off one another after the death of a brother and the retreat of their grieving parents. When Juliet, the focus of them all, is drawn into a complex love affair with the enigmatic Jacob, the others, too, find themselves falling in love and then, like her, evading the consequences. None will admit what they are doing, or why. 'A terrific book, a meteorological force in its own right,' said the Evening Standard of Lavinia Greenlaw's first novel. An Irresponsible Age is every bit as absorbing and beautifully observed.

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Author:   Lavinia Greenlaw
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:   Fourth Estate Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9780007156290


ISBN 10:   0007156294
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   03 January 2006
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

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Praise for Mary George of Allnorthover: 'This is a terrific first novel, a meteorological force in its own right.' Evening Standard 'A composed and sensuous first novel.' Financial Times 'A spacious and compassionate read.' Time Out 'What is most impressive, ultimately, is the strength and solidity of the house Greenlaw builds around the reader: every brick carefully aligned, necessary and true.' Independent on Sunday


'Gifted with a sharp eye for detail and a fine sensibility to verbal nuance and patterning, Greenlaw has already established herself as a significant force in British poetry. This new novel seems certain to confirm her developing reputation as a writer of lively, intelligent and well-crafted fiction.' Guardian 'There's more than a whiff of Cold Comfort Farm hanging over this elegant novel.' Daily Mail ' An Irresponsible Age develops into an engrossing and thought-provoking read.' Sunday Telegraph 'Greenlaw's luminous prose is spare, clinical, sharp enough to dissect characters and scrape away the surface of England in 1990 to reveal a hollow age, yearning to be real before it can be responsible.' Daily Telegraph 'A subtle and intriguing novel.' Observer 'Made plausible by the brilliance of the writing!Greenlaw superbly brings to life her characters' inner life and their perceptions of their world!it gives the novel an irresistible emotional logic and force.' Financial Times 'Greenlaw is a writer of wonderful elegance and detachment. She treats her reader as an invisible observer, simply flinging you into the midst of the family with the minimum of explanation. Above all, An Irresponsible Age is terrifically funny.' Kate Saunders, New Statesman 'A terrific book, a meteorological force in its own right! An Irresponsible Age is every bit as absorbing and beautifully observed.' Evening Standard


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LAVINIA GREENLAW is the author of three books of poetry, Night Photograph (1993), which was shortlisted for the Whitbread and Forward awards, A World Where News Travelled Slowly (1997), a poem from which won the Forward Prize, and Minsk (2003), which was shortlisted for the Forward, T.S. Eliot and Whitbread awards. She currently teaches at Goldsmiths College and lives in north London.

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