All the Days And Nights
by Niven Govinden
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Pub Date 25 Sep 2014 | Archive Date 12 May 2015
HarperCollins UK, HarperPress/4th Estate/The Friday Project | The Friday Project
Description
From the author of ‘Black Bread White Beer’.
The East Coast of America, 1980.
Anna Brown, a dying artist, works on her final portrait. Obsessive and secretive, it is a righting of her past failures; her final statement.
John Brown, her husband and life-long muse, has left; walked out of their home one morning to travel cross-country in search of the paintings he has sat for.
As their stories unfold – independently, for the first time in many years – a passionate unconventional relationship is revealed, between two people living through the most tumultuous decades of modern history.
All the Days and Nights is the story of an art hunt during a twilight period of painting. It lays bare two relationships that are ever changing and incomparable: of the artist and the muse, and of lovers. It is an exploration of what it means to create, what it means to inspire, what it means to live.
Advance Praise
Praise for ‘All the Days and Nights’
‘Govınden is the kind of gentle modernist that contemporary Brıtish fiction needs; entertaining, intellectual, emotional, poetıc, fabulous.’ Deborah Levy
‘A potent exploration of an artist and her muses.’ Jeff Jackson, author of ‘Mira Corpora’
Praise for ‘Black Bread White Beer’
‘Niven Govinden brilliantly evokes the bleak comedy and deranged exhilaration of modern life. This is the sound of the suburbs.’ Jake Arnott, author of ‘The Long Firm’
‘I’m full of admiration for this novel and the way it captures a couple as a crisis detonates in their marriage and exposes all sorts of emotional and cultural fault lines in the process.’ Alex Clark
‘A novel of genuine power and resonance. It is the kind of book readers long for but so rarely find.’ Stuart Evers
‘In form and scope, “Black Bread White Beer” recalls Ian McEwan’s novella “On Chesil Beach”.’ Tehelka (India)
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9780007580507 |
| PRICE | £1.99 (GBP) |
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