Highway Blue
the must-read modern-day Bonnie and Clyde story of summer 2022
$26.86
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
5 June 2022
Summary
A hypnotic debut novel by a twenty-three-year-old new writer - a future classic.
“Holds you captive like a blues song.” - Olivia Sudjic
In San Padua you can never get the ocean out of your brain.
Anne Marie’s husband Cal left her on their first anniversary. Two years later and she is still adrift, living a precarious life of shift work and shared apartments.
When he shows up on the doorstep, clearly in trouble, she reluctantly agrees to a drink. But later that …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529112887 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529112885 |
| Author: | Ailsa McFarlane |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 5 June 2022 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 13mm |
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Critics Review
Poignant, moving, and cinematic, this is a story imbued with love and loss that feels at once distantly dreamlike and vividly recognisable.
Poignant, moving, and cinematic, this is a story imbued with love and loss that feels at once distantly dreamlike and vividly recognisable. * An Yu, author of BRAISED PORK *
Highway Blue is a beautiful, inspired rendering of the on-the-road journey. At its core is an unforgettable protagonist in Anne Marie. McFarlane has written an irresistible story of love and life’s meanderings. A very gifted writer, I was entranced. * Elaine Feeney, author of AS YOU WERE *
Ailsa McFarlane’s prose combines the razor sharp truth telling of Ottessa Moshfegh with the troubled heart of Raymond Carver, using plain language to conjure a shockingly intense way of seeing. I’ve never read anything quite like it. * Emma Copley Eisenberg, author of THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL *
I loved Highway Blue - a dark, glimmering, journey deep into modern America on a knife edge between love and dependence. * Rosie Price, author of WHAT RED WAS *
Hypnotic, stylish, cinematic: Highway Blue holds you captive like a blues song or incantation. * Olivia Sudjic, author of ASYLUM ROAD *
In Highway Blue, the richness and pathos of the ordinary is heightened by the private mysteries of McFarlane’s innocent fugitives as they run from both the law and themselves. It is a harrowing journey, but one filled with unexpected kindnesses and the illuminating effect of transformation. I so admire it.
* Susanna Moore, author of IN THE CUT *If one of America’s many complicated attributes is its ability to let whole lives pass without being seen, Ailsa McFarlane reminds us that language can bring these same lives into stark and penetrating relief. Highway Blue is a road novel, a love story, a coming of age, but with sentences so sharply wrought, characters so achingly precise, that it feels new and fresh and utterly alive.
McFarlane deftly pulls the strings of her cinematic plot, making sure it never descends into melodrama. Instead, the story remains gripping, yet thought-provoking - a poignant comment on the modern condition. * Stylist *
Highway Blue is a beautiful, sun-drenched road novel… A novel that’s in love with the idea of America, both contemporary in its concerns and deeply nostalgic * Observer *
About The Author
Ailsa McFarlane
Ailsa McFarlane was born in 1997 in Seattle, Washington, and grew up in Snowdonia in the United Kingdom. After leaving school, she studied veterinary science before dropping out to travel the United States and Europe by road. Highway Blue is her first novel.
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