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The Tidal Zone

ID 299653
Slug tidal-zone
Contributors
Author : Sarah Moss
Annotation
Description Adam is a stay-at-home dad who is also working on a history of the bombing and rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral. He is a good man and he is happy. But one day, he receives a call from his daughter's school to inform him that, for no apparent reason, fifteen-year-old Miriam has collapsed and stopped breathing. In that moment, he is plunged into a world of waiting, agonising, not knowing. The story of his life and the lives of his family are rewritten and re-told around this shocking central event, around a body that has inexplicably failed. In this exceptionally courageous and unflinching novel of contemporary life Sarah Moss goes where most of us wouldn't dare to look, and the result is riveting - unbearably sad, but also miraculously funny and ultimately hopeful. The Tidal Zone explores parental love, overwhelming fear, illness and recovery. It is about clever teenagers and the challenges of marriage. It is about the NHS, academia, sex and gender in the twenty-first century, the work-life juggle, and the politics of packing lunches and loading dishwashers. It confirms Sarah Moss as a unique voice in modern fiction and a writer of luminous intelligence.
Genres
Subjects
300 Literaire fictie algemeen NUR
NSTC
Publisher Granta
Imprint
Language eng
Page count 336
Duration
Publication date first 2016-07-07
Publication date latest 2017-04-03
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Editions
  • ISBN: 9781783783076 (BC)
  • ISBN: 9781783783083 (BC)

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