Editions

The American Lover

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099548447

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 195g

  • RRP: £9.99

The American Lover

A seductive collection of stories from the 'magnificent story-teller' (Independent on Sunday). Rose Tremain has sold over one million copies of her books.

Trapped in a London flat, Beth remembers a transgressive love affair in 1960s Paris. The most famous writer in Russia takes his last breath in a stationmaster’s cottage, miles from Moscow. A father, finally free of his daughter’s demands, embarks on a long swim from his Canadian lakeside retreat. And in the grandest house of all, Danni the Polish housekeeper catches the eye of an enigmatic visitor.

‘Superb, each story a perfectly cut jewel’ Irish Times

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099548447

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 195g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • Powerful, involving, wide-ranging collection

    Gerard Woodward, Guardian

  • Tremain presents a large cast of ill-starred characters, each laid low by their heart… But even in the most melancholy stories, Tremain delivers slivers of hope or humour to temper the tragedies… This collection highlights with subtlety and grace just how human it is to get things wrong

    Daily Telegraph

  • Warm, moving, often humorous and sometimes heartbreaking

    Michelle Margherita, 5 stars, Stylist

  • A seemingly effortless performance... the writing glides along, elegantly dropping details that suggest a whole way of life

    Phil Baker, The Sunday Times

  • The American Lover is…superb, each story a perfectly cut jewel

    Neel Mukherjee, Irish Times

  • "With a keen ear for dialogue and restless changes of scene, she shows desire and disappointment to be universal, timeless emotions"

    Nicholas Blincoe, Sunday Telegraph

  • "Tremain's stories offer an elegant snapshot of other people's lives that leaves an emotional impact long after you close the book"

    Michelle Margherita, Stylist

  • "Whatever Tremain's canvas, she has a knack of infecting the reader with her own absorption. The cumulative effect of The American Lover is thus deeply satisfying and unsettling"

    Rosemary Goring, Herald Scotland

  • "With her razor-sharp talent, Rose Tremain hooks you in by line one and never lets you go. In these sophisticated short stories she doesn’t allow a single sentence to slouch"

    Kerry Fowler, Sainsbury's Magazine

  • "Tremain’s a gifted storyteller with an enviable lightness of touch"

    Sebastian Shakespeare, Tatler

More from this Author

View all View all
View all View all

About the Author

Rose Tremain

Rose Tremain’s novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Dylan Thomas Award (The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country). Her most recent novel, The Gustav Sonata, was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. It won the National Jewish Book Award in the US, the South Bank Sky Arts Award in the UK and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes. www.rosetremain.co.uk

Rose Tremain

Read more

/content/dam/prh/articles/archive/sacred-country-snippet.jpg

Features

Sacred Country: a novel ahead of its time

The activist Peter Tatchell on Rose Tremain’s Sacred Country, a groundbreaking novel about a young country girl called Mary who becomes a man named Martin
/content/dam/prh/articles/archive/the_gustav_sonata_extract_snippet_image_788x306.jpg

Extracts

The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain

Read an extract from the masterful new novel by Rose Tremain, which traces a friendship across a lifetime
/content/dam/prh/articles/archive/vintage_podcast_may_snippet_image_788x306.png

Podcasts

May Podcast: MEN with Rose Tremain, Rebecca Asher, Juno Dawson and David Szalay

A wide-ranging and provocative discussion with Rebecca Asher and Juno Dawson is accompanied by interviews with David Szalay and Rose Tremain as we look at how novels and non-fiction are examining the modern male.

Our Use of Cookies

We use cookies on this site to enable certain parts of the site to function and to collect information about your use of the site so that we can improve our visitors’ experience.

For more on our cookies and changing your settings click here

Strictly Necessary

Strictly Necessary cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions. See More.

Analytics

Analytics cookies help us to improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it. These cookies may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. See More.

Preferences & Features

Preference and Feature cookies allow our website to remember choices you make, such as your language preferences and any customisations you make to pages on our website during your visit. See More.

Targeting / Advertising

Targeting cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you and your interests. They perform functions like preventing the same content from reappearing, ensuring ads are displayed and, in some cases, selecting content based on your interests. See More.