Winner of IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2000, Wide Open is the first of Nicola Barker's Thames Gateway novels. Poking out of the River Thames estuary, the strange Isle of Sheppey is home to a nudist beach, a nature reserve, a wild boar farm and not much else. The landscape is bleak, but the people are interesting. There's Luke, who specialises in join-the-dots pornography and lippy, outraged Lily. They are joined by Jim, the 8-year-old Nathan and the mysterious, dark-eyed Ronnie. Each one floats adrift ... Read More
Winner of IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2000, Wide Open is the first of Nicola Barker's Thames Gateway novels. Poking out of the River Thames estuary, the strange Isle of Sheppey is home to a nudist beach, a nature reserve, a wild boar farm and not much else. The landscape is bleak, but the people are interesting. There's Luke, who specialises in join-the-dots pornography and lippy, outraged Lily. They are joined by Jim, the 8-year-old Nathan and the mysterious, dark-eyed Ronnie. Each one floats adrift in turbulent currents, fighting the rip tide of a past that swims with secrets. Only if they see through the lies and prejudice will they gain redemption. Wide Open is about coming to terms with the past, and the fantasies people construct in order to protect their fragile inner selves. Read Less
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Add this copy of Wide Open to cart. $4.99, very good condition, Sold by Housing Works Online Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Ecco Press.
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Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. Used good. Text appears to be clean of markings. Binding is tight. 290 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. ISBN: 0880016329. ISBN/EAN: 9780880016322. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1561020093.
Add this copy of Wide Open to cart. $7.00, good condition, Sold by Orca Books Cooperative rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Olympia, WA, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Harper Perennial.
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Used-G. Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2000, this brilliant and wildly imaginative novel centers on a motley crew of oddballs and misfits who come together on the Isle of Sheppey, each rife with secrets and madness simmering beneath the surface of normality. This book has minor wear and is in very good condition. Help support Orca Books Cooperative--Olympia's only Co-op Bookstore!
