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Nourishment - Gerard Woodward
Released: 03/09/2010
Picador
Tory, a housewife on the Home Front, is affronted when she receives a request from her POW husband for a dirty letter ‘by return of post’. She soon puts her distaste aside and resolves to investigate the art of erotic correspondence – with unexpected consequences. A thoughtful book from a prize-winning, Man Booker-nominated poet and novelist.
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Financial Times“Woodward’s rueful amusement isn’t frivolity, it’s a world view...” If Nourishment suffers from anything, it’s from a lack, rather than an excess, of seriousness. Woodward looks often as if he’s about to probe more deeply into Donald’s wartime trauma, but he is then tempted by another twist of bathos...
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Guardian“Woodward has a light touch...” Woodward has always cultivated a tension between the sublime and the ridiculous. Crisis, in his characters, often assumes peculiarly daft forms, and Nourishment is no exception...
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