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Goldsboro Books

9780434023097

The Shore

The Shore

by Sara Taylor

Publisher William Heinemann / Random House

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  • Hardcover
  • Sprayed Edges

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About the book

Longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction 2015

Shortlisted for The Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award 2015

Shortlisted for The Guardian First Book Award 2015

The Shore. A collection of small islands sticking out from the coast of Virginia into the Atlantic Ocean. The Shore takes the force of hurricanes, and grows so much food that it rots on the vine. The Shore is clumps of evergreens, wild ponies, oyster-shell roads, tumble-down houses, unwanted pregnancies, murder, storm-making, dark magic in the marshes.

The novel features various generations over the course of 150 years in interconnecting stories, and we observe a sequence of lives on the Shore the small miracles and miseries of a community of outsiders, and the bonds of blood and fate that connect them all. In its audacious interweaving of stories, it recalls David Mitchells Cloud Atlas, Jennifer Egans A Visit from the Goon Squad andUlverton by Adam Thorpe.

Dreamlike and yet impossibly real, profound and playful, THE SHORE is a breathtakingly ambitious and accomplished work of fiction by a young writer of astonishing gifts.

'Remarkable first novel...Taylor is a terrific storyteller with a flawless narrative... this novel is a real achievement... The Shore is a mesmerising, powerful read.' - The Times

About the Author

Sara Taylor

Sara Taylor is a socially anxious product of rural Virginia and the home-schooling movement. She traded her health for a BFA from Randolph College, and her sanity for an MA in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia. Following the MA her supervisor refused to let her leave, so she remains at the UEA to chip away at a double-focus PhD in censorship and fiction. She spends a ridiculous amount of time on delayed trains between Norwich and her husband's house in Reading, and tends to get lost, rained on, and chased by cows with unsettling frequency.

She expects the real adults will tell her to go back to finger painting any minute now.

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