One of our Books of the Year 2014.
The American Lover has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2014.
A collection of sensitive, absorbing and beautifully rendered stories. Only three are new, the rest (nine) have been published in various forms from the Guardian to Good Housekeeping. The three new are the title story, A View of Lake Superior in the Fall and Lucy and Gaston. Covering love and longing, death and loneliness, ambition and lack of fulfilment, their joy is in the writing, in being in her company. She is so good. This is her fifth collection.
Trapped in a London apartment, 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 young woman who is about to marry a rich aristocrat instead begins a torrid relationship with a construction worker.
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Trapped in a London apartment, 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.
The American Lover features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Shorter Reads, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Fiction: special features, Recommendations
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The American Lover was written by Rose Tremain and published by W.W. Norton and Company an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
The American Lover has 240 pages
