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Rapids Tim Parks

Rapids By Tim Parks

Rapids by Tim Parks


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Summary

Camping, eating and paddling together, six adults and nine adolescents seem set to enjoy what their leader insists on calling a 'community experience.' But, the dangerous river brings out qualities and failings in the most urgent fashion, provokes sudden conflicts, inexpected shifts of alliance. And, a banal disagreement turns violent.

Rapids Summary

Rapids by Tim Parks

In the dramatic landscape of the Italian Alps a group of English canoeists arrive for an 'introduction to white water.' Camping, eating and paddling together, six adults and nine adolescents seem set to enjoy what their leader insists on calling a 'community experience.' Their hosts are Clive, a taciturn figure, and Michela, his fragile girlfriend. Joining the group late are Vince, a banker trying to make sense of the flotsam of his existence, and his teenage daughter whom he feels moving inexorably away from him. The dangerous river manages to bring out the group's qualities and failings in the most urgent fashion, provoking sudden conflicts and unexpected shifts of alliance. An ideal love affair breaks down and an apparently impossible one timidly buds. A banal disagreement turns violent. Meanwhile, the hottest summer on record is filling the glacier-fed rivers with a melt water so wild that it is surely unwise of the distracted instructors to launch their party into the last day's descent of the upper Aurina...

Rapids Reviews

'A near-perfect marriage of style and content...A terrific, bravura tale...has a magnificent, thrilling urgency' - Sunday Telegraph. 'A deftly plotted tale...With Rapids, Tim Parks demonstrate, once again, that he is a supremely confident storyteller...As refreshing as it is memorable' - Evening Standard. "Triumphant...In Rapids he has excelled himself' - Daily Telegraph. 'A writer of considerable intelligence and great technical skill... His work is always tremendously readable' - Guardian. 'It takes a truly outstanding writer to take such a well-worn device and make it fresh and urgent. Tim Parks is such a writer, and Rapids is a thrilling white-water ride...Immensely readable and deeply intelligent, it confirms Tim Parks as one of our foremost authors, one whose depth of talent continues to refresh and shock and, finally, like the water itself, scour and purify' - Tim Lott, Independent. 'Parks is a writer of technical brilliance and ambition, whose fiction has been getting better and better...Written with a compelling urgency and energy...It is thrillingly paced' - London Review of Books. 'A thoughtful and moving novel' - Mail on Sunday.

About Tim Parks

Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. In 1981 he moved to Italy where he has lived ever since. He is the author of novels, non-fiction and essays, including Europa, Cleaver, A Season with Verona and Teach Us to Sit Still. He has won the Somerset Maugham, Betty Trask and Llewellyn Rhys awards, and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lectures on literary translation in Milan, writes for publications such as the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, and his many translations from the Italian include works by Moravia, Calvino, Calasso, Tabucchi and Machiavelli.

Additional information

GOR008513729
9780099481386
0099481383
Rapids by Tim Parks
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
2006-02-02
256
N/A
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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