Cold Water
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Product Information
| ISBN | 9780099437154 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gwendoline Riley |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.120 |
| Publishing Date | 01/05/2003 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €11.93 |
| Tax | €0.72 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €12.65 |
| Availability | 13 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
Carmel McKisco is wry, volatile and full of longing: a twenty-year-old girl working nights in a Manchester dive bar. Cut off from her family, and from Tony, her carefree ex, she forges strange alliances with her customers, and daydreams, half-heartedly, about escaping to Cornwall.
Cold Water is a poignant picaresque of barmaids and barflies; eccentric individuals all somehow tethered to their past - not least Carmel herself, who is nurturing mordant fixations on both her lost love, Tony, and her washed-up adolescent hero: a singer from Macclesfield. As she spins out the days and nights of an unrelentingly rainy winter she finds herself compelled to confront her romantic preoccupations, for better or worse.