Love in Central America
  • Published: 4 August 2016
  • ISBN: 9781473521216
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192

Love in Central America

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A passionate, addictive story of dangerous love, sex and reckless drinking under the Central American sun

Brett is in Central America, away from her husband, Paul, when she meets his friend Eduard. Though unimpressed with him at first, the two soon launch into a passionate affair.

Unlike stable Paul, Eduard encourages Brett’s dark side. Her sobriety soon slips out of her grasp, and she finds herself on a downward spiral of sneaking off for weeks with her lover and blacking out in hotels. Brett still has the clarity to see that she is destroying her life, but is unable to stop.

Though coming undone is something we all try to avoid, Love in Central America is a fiery, powerful novel, marrying tragedy and comedy, that reminds us that going off the rails is sometimes part of the ride.

‘Cheating on your husband is like doing cocaine,’ says Brett at one point. ‘It’s rarely pleasurable, but try quitting.’
  • Published: 4 August 2016
  • ISBN: 9781473521216
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192
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About the author

Clancy Martin

A former owner of a variety of jewellery operations in Texas, Clancy Martin is presently an Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. He has translated Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, has written several books for Oxford University Press, and has published many essays, reviews and short stories. He is the author of the acclaimed novel How to Sell. He is married and has three daughters.

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Praise for Love in Central America

an electrifying illustration of a bad romance, supercharged with breakneck dissolution

Daily Express

What really sets this novel apart is [Martin’s] wit.

Big Issue

What really sets this novel apart is wit: the snappy one-liners which rescue Brett from being a regular tragic victim of addiction to a sassy chick who sizzles her way through most of the book.

Jane Graham, Big Issue

A flushed and riveting account of some desperately, deliciously bad choices

Daniel Handler, bestselling author of We Are Pirates

Laugh-aloud funny ... painfully honest

New York Times

Like a diamond, cut clean, dangerously sharp, brutally hard and yet paradoxically beautiful, ruthlessly honing in on the plight of a woman caught in the throes of alcoholism, desire, marriage and adultery

David Means, author of Assorted Fire Events and The Spot

Un-put-downable. Brett is a lovable heroine - a lusty, wrongheaded writer, flawed and rueful, yet charging ahead. She wants everything she knows is bad for her - alcohol, drugs, and to have violent, lurid sex with her husband's rapscallion banker - and we root for her all the way

Rebecca Curtis, author of Twenty Grand