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The Wilderness
The Wilderness
hardback
Published:
5 February, 2009
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Description
Prizes
Winner of Betty Trask Prize 2009. Shortlisted for Orange Prize for Fiction 2009 and Guardian First Book Award 2009.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780224086073 |
| ISBN10 | 0224086073 |
| Number Of Pages | 336 |
| Item Weight | 480 g |
| Product Dimensions | 148 x 34 x 218 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Jonathan Cape |
| Format | hardback |
| Edition | First Edition |
Media Reviews
Winner of the 2009 Betty Trask PrizeShortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009 Longlisted for the Guardian First Book AwardLonglisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize A haunting, intelligent novel, crowded with powerful characters, told in a language that is never ordinary, but always clear and elegant. --Tessa Hadley, author of The Master Bedroom and Sunstroke and Other Stories It used to be thought that Alzheimer's unspooled the brain in the precise order in which it had grown, a decline that matched, plot point for plot point, childhood development-a kind of neural Curious Case of Benjamin Button. As the English novelist Samantha Harvey suggests in The Wilderness, her brave imagining of the disease, it's less linear and more complicated. There are moments of clarity; there is the persistence of desire; there are enduing long-term memories that remain after there is no capacity to recall what was for breakfast or if there was breakfast or what the thing called breakfast is... While most books about Alzheimer's are written from the outside looking in, this one stays within the ever-narrowing parameters of Jacob's mind.., Earlier in her life, Samantha Harvey studied philosophy, and that training is felt here, where the nature of truth is as much the protagonist as Jacob Jameson himself, and Alzheimer's disease is equally villain and muse. Every life is a mystery, Harvey seems to be saying, even to the one whose life it is. -- New York Times Book Review In the glut of novels being published at the moment a really exciting debut is as rare as it ever was. Samantha Harvey's first novel is an extraordinary dramatization of a mind in the process of disintegration. [ The Wilderness is] brilliant-- read it now, before it scoops up all the prizes. -- The Times (UK) Moving through a rich, protean mental landscape, Jake recalls and reinvents his life's themes and passions... Using recurrent, simple images
Author's Bio
Samantha Harvey was born in England in 1975. She has lived in Ireland, New Zealand and Japan writing, travelling and teaching, and in recent years has co-founded an environmental charity alongside her novel writing. She completed with distinction the Bath Spa Creative Writing MA course in 2005, where she was shortlisted for the PFD prize. The Wilderness is her first novel.