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You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. You're sellotaped to the inside pane of the jumble shop window. A photograph of your mangled face and underneath an appeal for a "Compassionate & tolerant owner, a person without other pets & without children under four". This is a whollly different kind of love story that spans the four seasons echoed in the title, capturing the destructive essence of loneliness.
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Spill Simmer Falter Wither
2017, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
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2016, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
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Jun 07, 2016, Audible Studios on Brilliance, Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio
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"Winner of the Davy Byrnes Award"--Cover.
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"This captivating story follows -- over the course of four seasons -- a misfit man who adopts a misfit dog. It is springtime, and two outcasts -- a man ignored, even shunned by his village, and the one-eyed dog he takes into his quiet, tightly shuttered life -- find each other, by accident or fate, and forge an unlikely connection. As their friendship grows, their small, seaside town suddenly takes note of them, falsely perceiving menace where there is only mishap; the unlikely duo must take to the road. Gorgeously written in poetic and mesmerizing prose, Spill Simmer Falter Wither has already garnered wild support in its native Ireland, where the Irish Times pointed to Baume's "astonishing power with language" and praised it as "a novel bursting with brio, braggadocio and bite." It is also a moving depiction of how -- over the four seasons echoed in the title -- a relationship between fellow damaged creatures can bring them both comfort. One of those rare stories that utterly, completely imagines its way into a life most of us would never see, it transforms us not only in our understanding of the world, but also of ourselves."--
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