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Batlava Lake

Batlava Lake - Paperback

by Adam Mars-Jones
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Availability:In StockContributor:Adam Mars-JonesPublish date:2021-11-16Pages:104
Language:EnglishPublisher:Fitzcarraldo EditionsISBN-13:9781913097622ISBN-10:1913097625UPC:9781913097622Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, War & MilitarySize:7.64 x 4.96 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC0JEBKPGC
Pristina, Kosovo, 1999. Barry Ashton, recently divorced, has been deployed as a civil engineer attached to the Royal Engineers corps in the British Army. In an extraordinary feat of ventriloquism, Adam Mars-Jones constructs a literary story with a thoroughly unliterary narrator, and a narrative that is anything but comic through the medium of a character who, essentially, is. Exploring masculinity, class and identity, Batlava Lake is a brilliant story of men and war by one of Britain's most accomplished writers.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Fitzcarraldo EditionsISBN-13:9781913097622ISBN-10:1913097625UPC:9781913097622Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, War & MilitarySize:7.64 x 4.96 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC0JEBKPGC

Adam Mars-Jones' first collection of stories, Lantern Lecture, won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1982, and he appeared on Granta's Best of Young British Novelists lists in 1983 and 1993. His debut novel, The Waters of Thirst, was published in 1993 by Faber & Faber. It was followed by Pilcrow (2008) and Cedilla (2011), which form the first two parts of a semi-infinite novel series. His essay Noriko Smiling (Notting Hill Editions, 2011) is a book-length study of a classic of Japanese cinema, Yasujiro Ozu's Late Spring. His memoir Kid Gloves was published by Particular Books in 2015. He writes book reviews for the LRB and film reviews for the TLS.


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