Spill Simmer Falter Wither

Name: Spill Simmer Falter Wither
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Author: Sara Baume
ISBN: 978-0-09-959274-7

Par : Sara Baume

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Nombre de pages277
FormatGrand Format
PrésentationBroché

Poids0.21 kg
Dimensions12,8 cm × 19,6 cm × 1,6 cm
ISBN978-0-09-959274-7
EAN9780099592747
Date de parution08/10/2015
ÉditeurWindmill Books

Résumé

A misfit man finds a misfit dog. Ray, aged fifty-seven, "too old for starting over, too young for giving up", and One Eye, a vicious little bugger, smaller than expected, a good ratter. Both are accustomed to being alone, unloved, outcast - but they quickly find in each other a strange companionship. As spring turns to summer, their relationship grows and intensifies, until a savage act forces them to abandon the precarious life they'd established, and take to the road.
A wholly different kind of love story, Spill Simmer Falter Wither is a devastating portrait of loneliness and loss, and of the restorative power of friendship.

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“ A life in permanent and self-imposed exile ”

At times, 'Spill Simmer Falter Wither' calls to mind an improbable collision between the universes of Proust and Beckett in contemporary rural Ireland. Even though the first person narrator, a middle aged misfit living in his deceased father's hovel, lacks the richness of Proust's social memories, he nevertheless manages to exhibit a rather lively mental existence nourished by the memory-charged objects around him. Sara Baume demonstrates her deep sense of psychology when the hermit's life of introspection is affected by his decision to adopt a one-eyed dog for companionship. Is One-Eye a potential source of salvation for the narrator or a liability ? The author keeps the reader guessing to the very end in her sensitive account of poor man's seemingly aimless journey with a most imperfect pet.