Elegy, Southwest (eBook)

Madeleine Watts (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
288 Seiten
ONE (Verlag)
978-1-80533-764-5 (ISBN)

Infos

'This book is a fever dream, a mood, a spell, an entire climate filled with a particular kind of desert winter light - harsh, unsparing, and beautiful' Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters
'Astonishingly and chillingly prescient . . . a rare kind of writing where every page offers something to linger on' FT
Eloise has known only two great loves: her husband, Lewis, and the desert. An academic living in Brooklyn, she is mesmerized by tales of the American Southwest, that paradise built on quicksand with less water every passing year. When the couple set out on a road trip tracing the course of the Colorado River, Eloise researches its lakes and dams, while Lewis grieves his mother in the prickly wasteland where he never felt quite at home.
Together they cruise past gaping canyons, glittering casinos and motels gone to seed, travelling through the red-gold light of nearby wildfires. They are young and they have each other, and for a moment the whole world seems to shimmer with glorious possibility. But within the close confines of the car a chasm starts to open between them.
This is a hauntingly beautiful love story about the mystery of other people - at once an excavation of a relationship, and an elegy for a desert running dry.
PRAISE FOR ELEGY, SOUTHWEST:
'Exquisite'TLS
'Haunting and precise' Spectator
'Profound' Service95
'Astounding, heartbreaking, and important' Elvia Wilk
'Strikingly brilliant' Heidi Julavits
'An expansive, ambitious novel' Ellena Savage

Autor

Madeleine Watts is the author of The Inland Sea, which was shortlisted for the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing. Her novella, Afraid of Waking It, was awarded the Griffith Review Novella Prize. Her nonfiction has been published extensively in Harper's Magazine, The Guardian, The Believer, The Paris Review, Literary Hub, and Astra Magazine. She has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. Born in Sydney, Australia, she lives between New York and Berlin.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.3.2025
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: American Southwest • Australian fiction • climate fiction • desert • environmental catastrophe • fiction about art • Grief • Grieving a Parent • Health Anxiety • literary fiction • Love Story • Mental Health • Missed Period • portrait of marriage • Relationship breakdown • road trip novel • the colorado river • Unplanned Pregnancy • wildfires
• ISBN-10: 1-80533-764-5 / 1805337645
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80533-764-5 / 9781805337645