Screen LibraryThe water cure /
Dreamlike and compulsive, a blazing literary debut about love, violence and survival at any cost. Once upon a time, damaged women came here to be cured. We took them in, fed them glasses of our clean, good water, let them scream at the waves till their lips split like ripe fruit. Now no one is left...
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| Published: |
Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Dreamlike and compulsive, a blazing literary debut about love, violence and survival at any cost. Once upon a time, damaged women came here to be cured. We took them in, fed them glasses of our clean, good water, let them scream at the waves till their lips split like ripe fruit. Now no one is left but my sisters and me. King died a year ago, quite suddenly. Mother has vanished, no one knows where. And the safe compound they built around us, far away from the toxic world, has finally been breached. Three men arrived last week, washed up by the sea, their gazes hungry and insistent. We rememb |
| Carrier Form: | 248 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780241337349 (paperback) : 0241337348 (paperback) 9780241334744 0241334748 |
| Index Number: | PR6113 |
| CLC: | I561.45 |
| Call Number: | I561.45/M158-1 |