Ebook {Epub PDF} Cove by Cynan Jones

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Cynan Jones was born near Aberaeron on the west coast of Wales in He is the author of five novels: The Long Dry; Everything I Found on the Beach; Bird, Blood, Snow; The Dig; and Cove. His work has been published in more than twenty countries and his short stories have appeared in publications including Granta and The New Yorker. He has won a Betty Trask Award, a .  · Cynan Jones was born near Aberaeron on the West coast of Wales in He is the author of five novels: The Long Dry; Everything I Found on the Beach; Bird, Blood, Snow; The Dig; and Cove. His work has been published in more than twenty countries and his short stories have appeared in publications including Granta and The New Yorker. He has won a Betty Trask Award, a Jerwood Author: Cynan Jones.  · Cynan Jones was born near Aberaeron on the West coast of Wales in He is the author of five novels: The Long Dry; Everything I Found on the Beach; Bird, Blood, Snow; The Dig; and Cove. His work has been published in more than twenty countries and his short stories have appeared in publications including Granta and The New Yorker. He has won a Betty Trask Award, a Jerwood Author: Cynan Jones.

Cove by Cynan Jones. Browser review. Eileen Battersby. Sat, , Welsh writer Cynan Jones favours a cryptic, quasi-poetic style which is deliberate, at times forced. He looks. by Cynan Jones ‧ RELEASE DATE: Ap A man reckons with nature and memory after being struck by lightning at sea. This brief novel, practically a prose poem, by the Welsh novelist Jones (The Long Dry, , etc.) is of a piece with his other fiction, which emphasizes the perils of life uncomfortably close to the elements. Rabeea Saleema reviews Cove, the latest novel from Cynan Jones, and finds a book that is a contemplative look at the relationship between man and nature.. In a time when novels are getting more robust, replete with increasingly ostentatious, over-embellished writing, Cove comes as a breath of fresh air. It has an elementary plot; A man goes fishing in his kayak, planning to scatter his father.

Cove by Cynan Jones review – an intensely observed tale of survival at sea Cynan Jones is a highly accomplished writer in whose hands such elemental raw materials turn strange and fugitive. In Cove, which was published in a beautiful hardcover edition by Catapult, Jones offers what is perhaps his most minimalist narrative while trying out new rhythms and showing what extreme economy of language can accomplish. A man is out at sea. He is in a kayak and gets caught in a sudden storm. Then he is struck by lightning. Cove is a haunting meditation on trauma and human fragility. Cove, by Cynan Jones, Granta, RRP£, pages Get alerts on Books when a new story is published.