My Coney Island Baby

My Coney Island Baby

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‘A poignant, piercing meditation on middle age and the passing of time… will linger with you long after the book is closed’ Guardian *SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE AWARD 2020*On a bitterly cold winter’s afternoon, Michael and Caitlin escape their unhappy marriages to keep an illicit rendezvous. Once a month, for the past quarter of a century, Coney Island has been their haven; these precious, hidden hours their only nourishment. But now, amid the howling of an angry snowstorm, the shut-down, out-of-season resort feels like the edge of the world. And their lives, suddenly, are on the brink – with news of serious illness on one side, and a move to the Midwest on the other.

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Weight 0.207 kg
Dimensions 1.6 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Paperback
Language

Pages

256
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Year Published

2020-2-6
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Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

1784708763
Review Quote

Novel of the year is My Coney Island Baby, by Billy O’Callaghan, a lush, precise, poetic account of a love affair that ends the way most love affairs do. We knew O’Callaghan to be a master of the short story, and here he shows the grand reach of his powers as a novelist.
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Billy O’Callaghan’s new novel grips from the opening page. The stride of his sentences is long and powerful, his vision raw. A spectrum of intensities from grief to love is revealed as relationships unfold with an honesty that is utterly believable.

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