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  • Published: 15 March 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409041955
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

Spring




A brilliant novel about money and love, on betting everything on a single throw, by an award-winning young writers, chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2013.

James and Katherine meet at a wedding in London in 2006, towards the end of the money-for-nothing years. James is a man with a varied past now living alone in a flat in Bloomsbury; Katherine is separated from her husband and working in an interim job in a luxury hotel. They exchange phone numbers at the wedding, but from then on not much goes according to the script...

  • Published: 15 March 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409041955
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

About the author

David Szalay

David Szalay is the author of four previous works of fiction: Spring, The Innocent, London and the South-East, for which he was awarded the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber Memorial prizes, and All That Man Is, for which he was awarded the Gordon Burn prize and Plimpton Prize for Fiction, and shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. Born in Canada, he grew up in London, and now lives in Budapest.

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Praise for Spring

Spring confirms that [Szalay] is a writer with the whole range of talents... Often outstanding

Theo Tait, Sunday Times

A brave and intelligent novel... This is one of those books that leaves you not only with admiration for the novelist, but also with a sense of wonder about the precision of the novel form itself

Chris Cleave, Guardian

A brave venture...psychologically realistic

Melissa McClements, Financial Times

A sharp, truthful, funny portrait of contemporary manners that is also unexpectedly moving

Kate Saunders, The Times

A texture of truthfulness quite unlike that of any other fiction about London that I know...a very beautifully poised novel

David Sexton, Evening Standard

Highly unusual in its realism and astuteness about the way we live now...in its understated way, a very beautifully poised novel

David Sexton, Scotsman

Szalay is certainly a writer to look out for... The writer [he] most puts me in mind of is a young Julian Barnes

Thebookbag.co.uk

Szalay is immensely talented... [he] gets everything right: the atmosphere, the suspense, the inner lives of his characters. Absolutely superb

William Leith, Evening Standard

The forensic scrutiny of every aspect of a fledgling relationship, from both points of view, is one of the many delights of Spring... Devastatingly powerful...also extremely funny, in that understated, unexpected way that makes you burst into sudden noise in public places and alarm those around you. Szalay's dialogue is pithy and sharp; his peripheral characters lip-smackingly delicious

Leyla Sanai, Independent on Sunday

The lives of two disconsolately unfulfilled people start to blaze, thanks to Szalay's often brutal honesty...formidable ear for dialogue - which transforms the most mundane exchanges into comedy, a la Mike Leigh - and seductively sensuous descriptions

Siobhan Murphy, Metro