{"title":"Books by Sara Baume","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780099592754","title":"A Line Made By Walking","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘When I finished Sara Baume’s new novel I immediately felt sad that I could not send it in the post to the late John Berger. He, too, would have loved it and found great joy in its honesty, its agility, its beauty, its invention. Baume is a writer of outstanding grace and style. She writes beyond the time we live in.’ Colum McCann\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStruggling to cope with urban life – and with life in general – Frankie, a twenty-something artist, retreats to the rural bungalow on ‘turbine hill’ that has been vacant since her grandmother’s death three years earlier. It is in this space, surrounded by nature, that she hopes to regain her footing in art and life. She spends her days pretending to read, half-listening to the radio, failing to muster the energy needed to leave the safety of her haven. Her family come and go, until they don’t and she is left alone to contemplate the path that led her here, and the smell of the carpet that started it all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinding little comfort in human interaction, Frankie turns her camera lens on the natural world and its reassuring cycle of life and death. 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A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window: COMPASSIONATE \u0026amp; TOLERANT OWNER. A PERSON WITHOUT OTHER PETS \u0026amp; WITHOUT CHILDREN UNDER FOUR.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA misfit man finds a misfit dog. Ray, aged fifty-seven, ‘too old for starting over, too young for giving up’, and One Eye, a vicious little bugger, smaller than expected, a good ratter. Both are accustomed to being alone, unloved, outcast – but they quickly find in each other a strange companionship of sorts. As spring turns to summer, their relationship grows and intensifies, until a savage act forces them to abandon the precarious life they’d established, and take to the road. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpill Simmer Falter Wither\u003c\/i\u003e is a wholly different kind of love story: a devastating portrait of loneliness, loss and friendship, and of the scars that are more than skin-deep. 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Mollie Douthit, a North Dakotan exile, was living and working alone in a log cabin down a ravaged laneway surrounded by rugged coastline. Sara and Mollie discovered they had much in common - a dysfunctional attitude towards companionship, a devotion to the daily rituals of their respective art practices, an affinity with nature. They started to meet every month for soup and punishing swims in the Atlantic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSara fell under the spell of Mollie's paintings, pictures that welded memory and reality, and gradually started to write about them, curious as to whether any particular insight might be provided by the intimacy of friendship with the artist, and whether it might be possible to craft a book in the style of the paintings. 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