Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris

Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris

'There exists in all of us a song waiting to be sung which is as heart-stopping and vertiginous as the peak of the cathedral. That is the meaning of this quiet city, where the spire soars into the blue, where rivers and stories weave into one another, where lives intertwine.' One quiet evening in Salisbury, the peace is shattered by a serious car crash. At that moment, five lives collide - a flower seller, a schoolboy, an army wife, a security guard, a widower - all facing their own personal disasters. As one of those lives hangs in the balance, the stories of all five unwind, drawn together by connection and coincidence into a web of experiences that perfectly represents the joys and tragedies of small town life.

"Wonderful…I was hooked from the first pageBarney has the real novelist’s ability to inhabit different characters, and to make the texture of life tangible and compelling. Everything he writes about love, loss, grief, desolation, and moments of hope and illumination rings absolutely true. It’s the real stuff." -- Michael Frayn
"Remember the name Barney Norris. He's a new writer in his mid-twenties, but already outstanding." * Times *
"Looks well beyond the literary intelligentsia’s world, describing with great humanity five ordinary lives, and coming close, as it does so, to being a “state of the nation” novel – albeit one with none of the bombast the term usually implies…deeply affecting…a tolerant and insightful debut" * Guardian *
"Barney Norris is a rare and precious talent...a writer-chronicler to be cherished." * Evening Standard *
"Outstanding...a moving, strangely uplifting novel that grapples with the coarse substance of everyday existence and poetically celebrates its passage. Superb." * Mail on Sunday *

Barney Norris was born in Sussex in 1987, and grew up in Salisbury. Upon leaving university he founded the theatre company Up In Arms. He won the Critics' Circle and Offwestend Awards for Most Promising Playwright for his debut full-length play Visitors. He is the Martin Esslin Playwright in Residence at Keble College, Oxford. This is his first novel.

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ISBN 13	9780857523730
ISBN 10	0857523732
Titel	Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain
Autor	Barney Norris
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Transworld Publishers Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	2016-04-21
Seitenanzahl	288
Preise	Short-listed for RSL Ondaatje Prize 2017 (UK), Short-listed for Betty Trask Prize 2017 (UK), Short-listed for Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2017 (UK)
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