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Alison Moore - The Lighthouse
Released: 15/08/2012
Salt
This Man Booker long-listed debut starts out contemplatively, as Futh, newly separated and off to ‘find himself', embarks on a walking tour of the Rhine valley. While staying in a family-run hotel in Hellhaus (whose German translation gives the novel its name, and a fairly ominous tone), Futh gets a frosty reception from the local barman and shady events unfold.
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80 %
The Independent“Disquieting, deceptive, crafted with a sly and measured expertise...” The peculiar achievement of The Lighthouse lies in the nervelessly skilful fusion of its emotions and its actions: the "literary" dimension of Futh's nostalgia and obsession, and the "genre" machine that, notch by notch, cranks up foreboding...
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90%
Financial Times“An over-ripe, on-the-turn confection of queasy brilliance...” What makes The Lighthouse stand out is a plain narrative overlaid with extraordinary descriptions of smell, giving the story an additional layer of feeling, an almost fetid intensity...
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90%
The Observer“One of the year's 12 best novels? I can believe it...” Looks simple but isn't, refusing to unscramble what seems a bleak moral about the hazards of reproduction, in the widest sense. Small wonder that it stood up to the crash-testing of a prize jury's reading and rereading...
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70 %
Guardian“The Lighthouse is a page-turner...” A chilly, heart-wrenching story that seems to say that, for all our obsessions with old wounds and childhood hurts, the thing that damages us most of all is the thing of which we are unaware...
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100%
Book Bag“Alison Moore's writing is exquisite...” It could, in lesser hands, have seemed over-used and clumsy but instead it contributes to the overwhelming air of melancholy which pervades the book...
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80 %
The Telegraph“Thrilling and well-sprung...” It is this accumulation of the quotidian, in prose as tight as Magnus Mills’s, which lends Moore’s book its standout nature, and brings the novel to its ambiguous, thrilling end...
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