Glover's Mistake: A Novel
Nick Laird
Language: English
Pages: 256
ISBN: 0143117335
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
"Terrific. It's the kind of book Jane Austen would've written had she been male and hipper-and had Internet access."
-Chicago Tribune
With his debut novel, Utterly Monkey, Nick Laird won acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic for his deft humor and sharp-eyed powers of observation. In this new novel, disaffected thirty-something college teacher David introduces his former teacher, American artist Ruth Marks, to his friend and flatmate James Glover, unwittingly setting in place a love triangle loaded with tension, guilt, and heartbreak. Set in the London art scene awash with new money and intellectual pretension, Nick Laird's insightful and drolly satirical novel explores the nature of contemporary romance among damaged souls whose hearts and heads never quite line up long enough for them to achieve true happiness.
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Whole of her. She looked good in work garb, the hair tangled and held back with a black headband, which on closer inspection became one leg of a pair of tights, tied. On her hands and narrow wrists were smears and spots of paint. The apron, David thought, was strangely flattering, emphasizing the curves of her chest and waist and hips. At the clink-clink of him stirring the coffee, she came over and took the mug in both hands, blowing on the top of it and sending the steam to him in a winter.
You look so moody.’ It was the photo from Time Out that David had stuck in his wallet, before he’d gone to the Us and the US exhibition at the Hayward. Ruth stood with it under the lights in the living room as David started to explain how he’d had it for ages and had kept meaning to show it to her—but Ruth was much more concerned with the picture itself. ‘I look so much younger.’ Larry fluently unhooded the seal of a champagne bottle, and rolled the foil into a ball on the tabletop. He said.
Tourists, street theatre (meaning buskers and painted immigrants standing still on upturned buckets). David had the impression there were a lot of first dates occurring. Optimistic couples walked past, glowing with mendacity, and far enough apart not to bump hands. A businessman loosened his tie as he strode towards them and then violently yanked it out from his collar, as though it had turned into a cobra. This was the end of work and the end of the week. Night was arriving and the darkness was.
A lip ring carrying a tray of prawns on Communion wafers. ‘Can I be really brazen and ask you for some wine? Would that be okay?’ She appraised them: David left her unconvinced, but Ruth, five foot five of effortless poise, carried them both easily. The wealthy expect and expect, and are not disappointed. When the waitress smiled in confirmation, her lip ring tightened disagreeably against her lower lip and David had to look away. ‘If you just let me get rid of these…’ He was nervous, and.
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