Reservoir 13 (Signed First Edition)

McGregor, Jon

ISBN 10: 0008204853 / ISBN 13: 9780008204853

Published by Fourth Estate, London, 2017

About this Item

Silver illustrated dust-jacket with a Waterstones Limited Edition label on the front, showing some handling but remaining tidy. Book bound with grey paper covered boards, black titles, black page edges. Signature to title page, contents unmarked, unused, as new.

Seller Inventory # 037057

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reservoir 13 (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Fourth Estate, London
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0008204853
• ISBN 13: 9780008204853
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

Midwinter in an English village. A teenage girl has gone missing. Everyone is called upon to join the search. The villagers fan out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on what is usually a place of peace. Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed. As the seasons unfold and the search for the missing girl goes on, there are those who leave the village and those who are pulled back; those who come together and those who break apart. There are births and deaths; secrets kept and exposed; livelihoods made and lost; small kindnesses and unanticipated betrayals. An extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, Reservoir 13 explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a tragedy refuse to subside.

About the Author

Jon McGregor is the author of four novels and a story collection. He is the winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literature Prize, Betty Trask Prize, and Somerset Maugham Award, and has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize three times. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nottingham, where he edits The Letters Page, a literary journal in letters. He was born in Bermuda in 1976, grew up in Norfolk, and now lives in Nottingham. Twitter: @jon_mcgregor Website: www.jonmcgregor.com