Highway Blue

Highway Blue
Ailsa McFarlane
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 192pg
5 May 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781529112887
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A hypnotic debut of broken love on the run, from a blazingly original young writer "In front of me the long length of the road wound out, wound out and wound on under hot sky. And I drove . . . " In the lonely, beat-up town of San Padua, Anne Marie can never get the sound of the ocean out of her head. And it' s here-dog-walking by day, working bars by night-where she tries to forget about her ex-husband, Cal: both their brief marriage and their long estrangement. But when Cal shows up on Anne Marie' s doorstep one day, he upends her world once again. A gun goes off in a violent accident, hurling the two of them on the road in escape. Through sweaty motel rooms and dark parking lots full of whiskey-soaked souls and fair-weather friends, Anne Marie sifts through the consequences of their crime. But this is also her search for love, in all its broken forms, and how the pursuit of love is, in turn, a kind of redemption. Written in spare, shimmering prose, Highway Blue is a novel of being lost and found across a vast, mythical American landscape, and a moving look at life on society' s margins. With all the grace of a latter-day Denis Johnson, it introduces an electrifyingly singular and brilliant new voice.
"In Highway Blue, the richness and pathos of the ordinary is heightened by the private mysteries of McFarlane' s innocent fugitives as they run from both the law and themselves. It is a harrowing journey, but one filled with unexpected kindnesses and the illuminating effect of transformation. I so admire it. "-Susanna Moore, author of In the Cut and Miss Aluminum "Hypnotic, stylish, cinematic . . . The even prose perfectly conjures the landscape, the road, the waves, while the trancelike repetition holds you captive to each sentence, like a blues song or an incantation. "-Olivia Sudjic, author of Sympathy and Exposure
Ailsa McFarlane was born in 1997 in Seattle, Washington, and grew up in Snowdonia in the United Kingdom. After leaving school, she studied veterinary science before dropping out to travel the United States and Europe by road. Highway Blue is her first novel.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781529112887
Published: 5 May 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 159g
Pages: 192

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