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ISBN-10: 1913097463
ISBN-13: 9781913097462
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Publish Date: 04/20/2021
Dimensions: 7.70" L, 5.00" W, 1.00" H

Bolt from the Blue

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Overview

In Bolt from the Blue, Jeremy Cooper, the winner of the 2018 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, charts the relationship between a mother and daughter over the course of thirty-odd years. In October 1985, Lynn moves down to London to enrol at Saint Martin’s School of Art, leaving her mother behind in a suburb of Birmingham. Their relationship is complicated, and their primary form of contact is through the letters, postcards and emails they send each other periodically, while Lynn slowly makes her mark on the London art scene. A novel in epistolary form, Bolt from the Blue captures the waxing and waning of the mother-daughter relationship over time, achieving a rare depth of feeling with a deceptively simple literary form.

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'Bolt from the Blue is a scintillating, wistful exploration of a good career and a poor relationship. Pithy yet expansive, it's an essential, engrossing, illuminating read for any aspiring artist.'
– Sara Baume, author of Handiwork

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Details

ISBN-10: 1913097463
ISBN-13: 9781913097462
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Publish Date: 04/20/2021
Dimensions: 7.70" L, 5.00" W, 1.00" H
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