Love Remains

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Granta, 2000 - Fiction - 277 pages
Falling in love allows for only two possible futures. In one, love is honoured. In the other, love is betrayed. ..Tracing apparently insignificant fault lines between Nick and Chloe - from first meeting, love and marriage to the point where the pressures of romantic expectation and sexual violence blow their lives apart - Glen Duncan's novel looks at lovers in the aftermath of emotional and physical brutality. ..Written with a relentless honesty and a powerful emotional intelligence, Love Remains is a gripping, mature and humane examination of our worst fears - and of our ability to survive when those fears become reality. ..'Compelling.ful of spiky insights and raw honesty.' Time Out ..Duncan takes you down paths of the heart you had forgotten existed and others you fear to tread.' Sunday Times ..'A book that leaves you emotionally sand-blasted, riven, entangled, doubled over.' Juice

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Section 2
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Section 3
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About the author (2000)

Glen Duncan was born in Bolton in 1965 to an Anglo-Indian family. His father was a compulsive story teller, and when Glen read The World According to Garp by John Irving at the age of 14 his mind was set: he wanted to be a novelist. Glen started submitting fiction when he was 17 and he says there were lots of 'close-but-no-cigar' responses, so he went up to Lancaster to study Philosophy and Literature in order to facilitate his writing career, which he pursued in secret...In 1990 Glen moved up to London, where he worked as a bookseller for Dillons for four years. In 1994, broke and feeling creatively bankrupt as well, Glen travelled to India with his father before continuing on to America, where he travelled around on Amtrak trains. Whilst there he met his current partner and moved to New York to join her, working as a fund-raiser for the New York Dance Company. Hope, Glen's first novel, was praised on both sides of the Atlantic when it was published in 1997. He currently d

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