Editions

Still

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780749396220

  • Length: 592  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 32mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 436g

  • RRP: £9.99

Still

' outwardly the unfilmable script of a would-be English cineste, one Richard Arthur Thornby currently lecturing in Texas on the cinema. He airs a hypothetical movie of both his own American present and his middle-class English families past. . ' John Fowles

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780749396220

  • Length: 592  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 32mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 436g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • "This is a prodigiously rich and allusive book ... We haven't been exposed to such a Rabelaisian gusto of language... if you want to claim that you have lived through this century, that you think you 'understand' its peculiar English seas, its psychological immensities - not least those of self-deception - here is your book."

    John Fowles, Spectator

  • "Complex and playful, joyous and devastating, something as downright relevant as the tip of your nose ... Still is actually a film in fiction. It's as bright and disjointed as The Waste Land."

    The Observer

  • "Enduring, effervescent ... A masterpiece of slipstreaming, sinuous prose."

    Scotland on Sunday

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About the Author

Adam Thorpe

Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton, appeared in 1992 and he has published two books of stories and ten further novels, most recently Missing Fay (2017). Words from the Wall is his seventh poetry collection.

Adam Thorpe

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