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Hourglass Keiran Goddard

Hourglass By Keiran Goddard

Hourglass by Keiran Goddard

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Summary

Adored by fans from Max Porter to Lena Dunham to Brett Anderson, a short, exquisite novel about love, loss and making sense of the world - as heartbreakingly moving as it is outrageous and funny

Hourglass Summary

Hourglass: A 'beautiful, funny, profound' (New Statesman) debut novel about love and loss by Keiran Goddard

A short, exquisite novel about love, loss and making sense of the world - as heartbreakingly moving as it is outrageous and funny

'A universal love story' Guardian

'Beautiful, funny, profound ... read it in one glowing session' New Statesman

'A book for anyone who ever has been or ever will be heartbroken. So that's everyone.' Hollie McNish

Love builds up little by little and that's why it makes people reach for words like root and sediment and other words to do with rocks and trees. But what about the dismantling? Does it happen that way too? Because it feels like it is happening much, much faster. And I am reaching for words like landslide and like wave and like storm ...

Exquisitely crafted, wildly imaginative and as darkly funny as it is moving, Hourglass is a revolutionary love story. It turns time upside down, combs the intimate wreckage of heartbreak for something universal, and asks what it means to lose what you love.

Hourglass Reviews

Beautiful, funny, profound ... Read it in one glowing session * New Statesman *
The charms of Hourglass, like those of the narrator himself, are insidious. This is a sad book that is somehow wickedly fun to read * LA Times *
An arresting, exquisitely told love story ... if ever a book could be read as a pilgrimage to discover what the heart finds sacred, this is it. * Irish Times *
Hourglass burnishes its ideas of love and agony with an almost mystical attention to feeling. This book truly glows in the heart of the reader -- Max Porter
Evocative, ecstatic, and saturated with off-kilter wit, Hourglass renders heartbreak as both vividly, luminously particular, and intensely, intimately familiar. There are lines from this remarkable book etched all over my memory, indelible -- Alexandra Kleeman
This book is such a sneaky head f*ck - an epic poem in an ancient style about the brutalities of modern love, a masculine interrogation of feminine heartbreak, a really beautiful way to spend an evening -- Lena Dunham
Hourglass will stay with me for a long time. Hypnotic. -- Lemn Sissay
A book for anyone who ever has been or ever will be heartbroken. So that's everyone. -- Hollie McNish
A stunning reimagining of the love story ... every word shines new and true -- Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure
Shockingly intimate and devastatingly funny, bleak and true -- Luke Kennard, author of The Answer to Everything
This book is a world. A broken dance floor of glass and gold, so rare and precious you barely believe it is real, but haunts you all day like a song. Vivid and brilliant. -- Greta Bellamacina
This is high-wire writing: a novel where every sentence counts. They add up to something profoundly honest and truly magical -- Matt Thorne
This is a beautiful book: by turns tough and tender, acerbically funny and deeply humane. Keiran Goddard's mind is a marvel. We are lucky to have him. -- Tabitha Lasley
A story of doomed romance as touching as it is abstract * Financial Times *
A universal love story * Guardian *
Beautiful and very funny -- Brett Anderson

About Keiran Goddard

Keiran Goddard grew up in Shard End, Birmingham in a working-class family. When he was fifteen, an inspirational teacher started lending him books and he fell in love with reading. He went on to get a place at the University of Oxford via a scheme for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. He is the author of one poetry pamphlet (Strings) and two full-length poetry collections (For The Chorus and Votive). His debut collection was shortlisted for the Melita Hume Prize and he was the runner up in the William Blake Prize. He speaks internationally on issues related to social change and currently develops research on workers' rights, the future of work, automation and trade unionism.

Additional information

GOR013234092
9780349144986
0349144982
Hourglass: A 'beautiful, funny, profound' (New Statesman) debut novel about love and loss by Keiran Goddard
Keiran Goddard
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Little, Brown Book Group
2023-03-02
208
Long-listed for Desmond Elliott Prize 2022 (UK)
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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