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Kansas in August
- Author
- Patrick Gale
- Narrator
- Patrick Gale
- Publisher
- Headline
- Publish Date
- 18 October 2018
- Run Time
- 4 hours 47 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Musical-obsessed Hilary Metcalfe, abandoned by his lover Rufus on his birthday, gets drunk, discovers a baby and brings it home to his flat above a corner shop to provide comfort and company. Rufus, meanwhile, allows himself to be seduced by a frivolous young woman, who is actually Hilary's professional, high-powered sister, romancing under a pseudonym to escape the reality of her own loneliness.
In this witty, bawdy slice of sex and lies, the trio will find themselves drawn together ever more tightly by the lures of hedonism, self-delusion and the inescapable desire to be needed.
(P)2018 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
Critics Review
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Modern, excellent and sympathetic
Stephen Fry
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Gale's blend of artifice and realism is not quite like anybody else's
Observer
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Patrick Gale's novels grip tightly, like swaddling clothes, stunning the reader into a state of lolling, contented absorption. How does he do it?
TLS
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Details
- Author
- Patrick Gale
- Narrator
- Patrick Gale
- Duration
- 4 hours 47 minutes
- Release Date
- 18 October 2018
- ISBN
- 9781472255761
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Headline
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Synopsis
Patrick Gale's KANSAS IN AUGUST is a witty, warm novel of childhood and abandonment for readers of Armistead Maupin and Edmund White 'Modern, excellent and sympathetic' Stephen FryMusical-obsessed Hilary Metcalfe, abandoned by his lover Rufus on his birthday, gets drunk, discovers a baby and brings it home to his flat above a corner shop to provide comfort and company. Rufus, meanwhile, allows himself to be seduced by a frivolous young woman, who is actually Hilary's professional, high-powered sister, romancing under a pseudonym to escape the reality of her own loneliness. In this witty, bawdy slice of sex and lies, the trio will find themselves drawn together ever more tightly by the lures of hedonism, self-delusion and the inescapable desire to be needed.(P)2018 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
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