· I'm a huge Dan Rhodes fan, and "Gold" could well be his best yet. The story is a simple one - a Japanese woman goes on holiday to a Welsh village - but is full of the usual Rhodes quirks, for example she decides to cover a large rock on the beach with /5(28). Rhodes’ fifth book came out in It won the Aye Write/Clare Maclean Prize for Scottish Fiction, and was nominated for the IMPAC Prize. “Both hilarious and acutely affecting, perhaps even profound. *****” INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY “In a year of mostly reading fiction my great discovery has been Gold by Dan Rhodes. This is an original novel, funny, dark, pitched somewhere between the pub novels of Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. Gold. by. Dan Rhodes. · Rating details · ratings · reviews. Like a Welsh Amélie set in a pub, Gold is a tender, understated tale of love, loss, and growing up. It is also vintage Dan Rhodes, one of the most critically beloved novelists working today. Miyuki Woodward, lover of beer and microwaveable food, has been taking a two-week vacation—away from her companion—to the same seaside town in /5().
Gold|Dan Rhodes, Sermons, Fragments Of Sermons And Letters [ed. By J. Gadsby].|William Gadsby, County and City Extra Annual Metro, City and County Data Book (County City Extra: Annual Metro, City County Data Book)|Deirdre A. Gaquin, French Nuclear Diplomacy (Princeton Legacy Library)|Wilfred L. Kohl. Dan Rhodes (born ) is an English writer, possibly best known for the novel Timoleon Vieta Come Home (), a subversion of the popular Lassie Come Home movie. He is also the author of Anthropology (), a collection of stories, each consisting of exactly words. In he was awarded the E. M. Forster Award. Former Waterstones bookseller and author of Gold. Visit the Dan Rhodes author page. Miyuki Woodward, lover of pints and Pot Noodles, has been spending holidays in the same Welsh seaside town for years. She loves the wet walks, she loves The Anchor and most of all she loves the pub-quiz. This year, following an act of raw creativity involving.
I'm a huge Dan Rhodes fan, and "Gold" could well be his best yet. The story is a simple one - a Japanese woman goes on holiday to a Welsh village - but is full of the usual Rhodes quirks, for example she decides to cover a large rock on the beach with gold spray paint (hence the "Gold" of the title). Like a Welsh Amélie set in a pub, Gold is a tender, understated tale of love, loss, and growing up. It is also vintage Dan Rhodes, one of the most critically beloved novelists working today. Miyuki Woodward, lover of beer and microwaveable food, has been taking a two-week vacation—away from her companion—to the same seaside town in Wales. Gold is a novel by British author Dan Rhodes published in March by Canongate. It won the inaugural Clare Maclean Prize for Scottish Fiction and has since been published in five other languages: Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Dutch, Norwegian. It was also one of the 'best books of ' according to critics at The Independent.
0コメント