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Lean Fall Stand: Signed Edition

Hardback Published on: 29/04/2021
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Lean Fall Stand
Translations
Before reading this novel, I think I had mentally archived it as another polar exploration/disaster story but that is a surprisingly minor part/red herring... READ MORE
Jo at TCR
Lean Fall Stand
Survival / Adaptation / Communication
A very well written book about survival. The first half of the book takes us to a -full of tension- expedition to the Artic, with beautiful nature and se... READ MORE
Jose
Lean Fall Stand
A daring and poignant novel
I was caught off guard at just how cleverly this book manipulated the English language to place you in the character's shoes. I found the story to be equal... READ MORE
Bookseller Adam, Lichfield
Lean Fall Stand
Stunning, just stunning!
Once again Jon McGregor pulls off the seemingly impossible with a novel both gripping and stylistically innovative. What appears out the outset to be a lit... READ MORE
Matt at Waterstones Online
Lean Fall Stand
How Language Helps Us Explore New Worlds
Robert 'Doc' Wright has spent years of his life working in the Antarctic as a technician. When things go horribly wrong during what will turn out to be his... READ MORE
Katy Wheatley

Synopsis

The highly anticipated new novel from the Costa-award winning, three-times Booker-longlisted author of Reservoir 13.

When an Antarctic research expedition goes wrong, the consequences are far-reaching - for the men involved and for their families back home.

Robert 'Doc' Wright, a veteran of Antarctic field work, holds the clues to what happened, but he is no longer able to communicate them. While Anna, his wife, navigates the sharp contours of her new life as a carer, Robert is forced to learn a whole new way to be in the world.

Award-winning novelist Jon McGregor returns with a stunning novel that mesmerizingly and tenderly unpicks the notion of heroism and explores the indomitable human impulse to tell our stories - even when words fail us. A meditation on the line between sacrifice and selfishness this is a story of the undervalued, unrecognised courage it can take just to get through the day.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • ISBN: 9780008476328
  • Number of pages: 288
  • Dimensions: 222 x 141 mm
  • Weight: 270g

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Lean Fall Stand
Another remarkable book from a wonderful author
/ _ | A new Jon McGregor novel would be the highlight of any year – and this one will I can confidently say be a literary highlight of 2021. The wonderfu... READ MORE
Graham Fulcher
Lean Fall Stand
Hmmm
I was interested in this book, the reviews were good but ultimately I was disappointed by this. It starts reasonably well, the first section is decently wr... READ MORE
Book collector
Lean Fall Stand
Lean Fall Stand by Jon McGregor
Jon McGregor is a remarkable writer. He can take a deeply upsetting subject and write in such a lyrical way that the reader is transfixed by the beauty of... READ MORE
David Kenvyn
Lean Fall Stand
Strangely beautiful
This is a strangely beautiful and poetic book. Nature at its most extreme is the core of the first section (lean) with the workers battling to survive. Fal... READ MORE
jean
Lean Fall Stand
A stunning novel about language, communication and the telling of our stories
Jon McGregor is an excellent author. Although he writes in a very individual way which is not always linear and "straightforward", he still manages to hold... READ MORE
Tracey McHardy