Quinn

Name: Quinn
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SKU: 9780861543007
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By Em Strang

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Quinn by Em Strang delves into the complicated emotional landscape of a man recently released from prison. The novel explores his internal struggles as he navigates the complexities of freedom, relationships, and self-recovery. It’s a profound reflection on guilt, redemption, and the possibility of change within oneself.
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Quinn

A piercingly original debut about the limits of forgiveness, from an award-winning Scottish poet

A piercingly original debut about the limits of forgiveness, from an award-winning poet

Description

Quinn is serving a life sentence for a terrible crime committed against the love of his life, Andrea. As the date of his release nears, he receives a letter from an unexpected sender: Andrea's mother, Jennifer. To the horror of her local community, she invites Quinn to share her home. What appears to be a radical act of forgiveness is, however, underpinned by more complex motivations.

As they navigate the thorny terrain of guilt, loathing, and mutual need that underpins their relationship, Quinn is fighting demons within himself, urges that have always plagued him and threaten to transcend his desire for redemption. Now he must battle to preserve the freedom he longs for, even as the dark voices within threaten to pull him back down...

Visceral and compelling, Quinn is a beautifully poetic debut about family, love, and the many faces of betrayal.

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Quinn by Em Strang is praised for its remarkable and accomplished writing, teeming with poetic effects and rendered in otherworldly, poetic prose. It's described as a haunting, strange, and beautiful work, likened to a fever dream that is both intense and gripping. The book explores themes such as redemption, trauma, and memory with originality and grace, subverting traditional narrative techniques for a more allusive and symbolic storytelling approach.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780861543007

Publisher: Oneworld Publications

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 March 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Oneworld Publications

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 206.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 208

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About the Author

Em Strang is a poet and writer from Scotland. She has a PhD from the University of Glasgow, and in 2014 was selected for a Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award. She is the author of several books of poetry including Bird-Woman (2016), which was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Best First Collection Prize and was awarded the Saltire Poetry Book of the Year Award 2017. She works with prisoner groups at HMP Dumfries and as a freelance creative mentor. Quinn is her first novel.

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