The Last Weekend

Morrison, Blake

ISBN 10: 0701184841 / ISBN 13: 9780701184841

Published by Chatto & Windus, 2010

About this Item

Morrison, Blake. The last weekend. London: Chatto & Windus, 2010. Fourth impression. Hardback, fine in unclipped dustjacket. Black boards with silver gilt lettering. Binding strong and tight. Black endpapers. 262pp., contents clean and bright. "At the novel's conclusion, it is the wives who are left to pick up the pieces, and it's tempting to conclude that Morrison has little patience for the byways of male friendship that he set himself to explore. But a closer reading might suggest a more complex sympathy for two men struggling, in different ways, under the burden of masculinity and searching desperately for a way to be released from it" (The Guardian). RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Last Weekend
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701184841
• ISBN 13: 9780701184841
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

Set over a long weekend in East Anglia, Blake Morrison's new novel is the chilling story of a rivalrous friendship - as told with deceptive casualness by the narrator, Ian. It opens with a surprise phone call from an old university friend, inviting Ian and his wife, Em, for a few days by the sea. Their hosts, Ollie and Daisy, are a golden couple, and the scene is set for sunlit relaxation. But dangerous tensions quickly emerge.

In taut, lucid prose, with flashes of wit and moments of troubling uncertainty, Blake Morrison perfectly conveys the stifling atmosphere of a remote cottage in the hottest days of summer. Ominous revelations from Ian's past slowly intrude. And his rivalry with Ollie intensifies as they resurrect a seemingly forgotten bet made twenty years before. Each day becomes a series of challenges for higher and higher stakes, setting in train actions that will have irreversible consequences.

The Last Weekend is a deftly crafted page-turner, where little can be taken for granted and nothing is quite as it seems. It offers a dark, haunting tale of friendship, sexual passion and jealousy - and confirms Blake Morrison's reputation as one of Britain's most talented writers.

About the Author

Born in Yorkshire, England, BLAKE MORRISON is the author of two bestselling memoirs, And When Did You Last See Your Father? and Things My Mother Never Told Me, three novels, The Justification of Johann Gutenberg, South of the River and The Last Weekend, and a study of the Bulger murder case, As If. He is also a poet, critic, journalist and librettist. He teaches creative writing at Goldsmiths College and lives in London, England. Visit his website at www.blakemorrison.com.