The Big Snow - Softcover

David Park

3.3

158 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747561419 ISBN 13: 9780747561415

Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING LTD., 2003

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BIG SNOW

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From the Publisher:

"David Park...is a writer of consequence, lyrical, precise, comic, and serious."-Boston Globe
"A taut, riveting urban murder-mystery. Park is a superb writer."-Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"[A] closely observed tale of how transfigured landscapes and familiar yearnings converge...quiet and absorbing."-Washington Post Book World
"Despair, desire, deception: Park is deft at revealing their traumas through his Everyman characters, contrasting the cold, white purity of snow with the hot-blooded, red taint of humanity."-Miami Herald
"Lyric eloquence...A moving and unusual novel filled with unexpected encounters and unpredictible outcomes."-Orlando Sentinel
"Park uses the imagery of his setting in every conceivable fashion and to powerful effect. Masterful fiction."-Booklist

About the Author:

David Park has published three novels and one volume of short stories. He was the winner of the Authors' Club First Novel Award, the Bass Ireland Arts Award for Literature and a twice winner of the University of Ulster's McCrea Literary Award. He lives in County Down, Northern Ireland with his wife and two children.

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