The Crossing
A European Literature, British Literature, Literary Fiction book. Andrew Miller set himself an enormous challenge in having as his central character, Maud,...
From the author of the Costa Book of the Year Pure, a hypnotic, luminous exploration of buried grief and the mysterious workings of the heart. She is sailing. She is alone. Ahead of her is the world's curve and beyond that, everything else. The known, the imagined, the imagined known. Who else has entered Tim's life the way Maud did? This girl who fell past him, lay seemingly dead on the ground, then stood and walked. That was where it all began.He wants her - wants to rescue her, to reach her. Yet there is nothing to suggest Maud has any need of him, that she is not already...
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- Pages: 336 pages
- ISBN: 9781444753493 / 1444753495
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Maud is strange, detached, hardworking, calm and seemingly without inner turmoil while Tim is passionate, musical and lazy. Sailing brings them together and they buy their own boat. Soon they start a family. Maud goes to work every day while Tim stays at home to take care of their little girl. Slowly Tim starts to resent what he first... Another highly literary page-turner from Andrew Miller, whos Pure was my favourite book in 2011 so I was mad with anticipation over The Crossing, his first book since Pure, and its good, of course not as wonderful as Pure, but then, Pure is such a very hard act to follow.This is the story of Maud. Maud is an extremely odd creature.... Andrew Miller set himself an enormous challenge in having as his central character, Maud, a young woman who appears at first to have no inner life at all. She shows no curiosity about others, treats conversation as a kind of polite game, and maddens those who are attracted to her, like her partner Tim, by her cool unreachability. Asked...
