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Stuart Evers - If This Is Home
Released: 05/07/2012
Picador
Evers won The London Book Award with his 2011 collection Ten Stories About Smoking, over which the influence of Raymond Carver cast a pleasing shadow. Absorbing understatement should be on the cards then, for Evers' mysterious debut novel, concerning British expatriate Mark Wilkinson – man of many pseudonyms – whose past shockingly catches up with him one night in Vegas.
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The Independent“Deliciously addictive stuff...” Evers portrays those on the margins of society with sensitivity; the tale of the two motherless teenagers Mark and Bethany...is poignant and compelling even without the tragedy that we know awaits...
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70 %
Guardian“It's a wonderful story...” Though the concept of a mysterious casino feels credible within the context of a short story, as the basis for a novel it feels somewhat overstretched...
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85%
The Observer“A quiet triumph...” Stuart Evers's excellent, multilayered debut novel explores his characters' desperate need to flee a well-drawn northern town. it's to Evers's great credit that If This is Home is so readable...
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70 %
The Telegraph“Doesn't match the brilliance of his short stories...” Again and again in his short stories Evers displays his Matisse-like economy when it comes to sketching characters. The novel, however, requires more than this, more nuance, more shading...
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100%
The Scotsman“So well-written and so well-constructed...” This first novel is a fine achievement, something to savour. When I had finished it, I went back and read it again, and it seemed even better second time round...
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