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Spring

byDavid Szalay

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A brilliant novel about money and love and betting everything on a single throw - from the Booker-shortlisted author of All That Man Is

James and Katherine meet at a wedding in London in 2006, towards the end of the money-for-nothing years. James is a man with a varied past now living alone in a flat in Bloomsbury; Katherine is separated from her husband and working in an interim job in a luxury hotel.

They exchange phone numbers at the wedding, but from then on not much goes according to the script...

'A writer with the whole range of talents' Sunday Times

'Devastatingly powerful... extremely funny, in that understated, unexpected way' Independent on Sunday

'A sharp, truthful, funny portrait of contemporary manners that is also unexpectedly moving' The Times

Spring confirms that [Szalay] is a writer with the whole range of talents... Often outstanding

Theo Tait, Sunday Times

About David Szalay

David Szalay is the author of five previous works of fiction: Spring, The Innocent, London and the South-East, for which he was awarded the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber Memorial prizes, All That Man Is, for which he was awarded the Gordon Burn prize and Plimpton Prize for Fiction, and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and Turbulence, which won the Edge Hill Prize. Born in Canada, he grew up in London, and now lives in Vienna. His work has been translated into over twenty languages.
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  • Imprint: Vintage
  • ISBN: 9780099552772
  • Length: 272 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 130mm
  • Weight: 195g
  • Price: £9.99
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