โ Scribed by Nicola Barker
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"Barker's weird imagination works wonders with this extraordinary tale of two brothers . . . Exceptional." --Elle
Winner of the 2000 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Nicola Barker's remarkable literary genius illuminates a tale of family and loss.
As winner of the highly prestigious IMPAC International Dublin Literary Award, Wide Open topped a list of titles by such masters as Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, and Michael Cunningham. It is a truly extraordinary work of fiction, taking readers into the minds and hearts of the remarkable inhabitants of a small English seaside town. There's Ronny, who has some strange things in common with a man he finds dangling from a bridge; Nathan, the son of a pedophile, who toils in the Underground's Lost Property department, endlessly logging missing items; Sara, in charge of her family boar farm; and Lily, her teenage daughter, tragically born with unformed organs and blood that refuses to clot.
Wide Open is a novel about stripping off...
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