The Shape of Clouds

Peter Benson

Genre: Fiction – 20^th Century

Publisher: Sceptre

ISBN: 0 340 67204 8

Year: 1996 Ed 1

Format: softcover

Condition: unread, excellent condition as new

Description

“After a lifetime at sea Captain Michael Blaine has retired to an abandoned, remote Cornish village. He is the only inhabitant until Elizabeth Green, American movie star and one-hit-wonder, comes to see her mother's birthplace, just for a couple of hours. But soon she finds herself stranded, then forced to make the decision she has spent a lifetime avoiding. Peter Benson's beguiling new novel is about dreams fulfilled, lives affirmed and a love as unexpected as it is late, confirming his place as one of the most individual voices in modern British fiction.

Peter Benson has written six acclaimed novels, including A Private Moon, The Levels and Riptide.

He has received the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Encore and Somerset Maugham Awards, and has had short stories published in anthologies and read on BBC Radio 4.

‘Beautiful writing and thoughtful language…image is piled on image, often page after page of stunning prose' Time Out

‘ Benson is a sharp stylist and delivers great lines in a glorious deadpan…Fine writing, clear thinking, and a life-enhancing sense of hope' Sunday Telegraph

‘Vividly, defiantly realistic at times, luridly surreal at others, his writing's ability compound striking metaphors of the abstract with a graphic physicality has won him a deserved following' The Times Literary Supplement

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