- Published: 22 February 2011
- ISBN: 9781446418925
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 432
The Standing Pool
Formats & editions
- Published: 22 February 2011
- ISBN: 9781446418925
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 432
An immensely clever, tragicomic novel...a rich meditation on past and present colonial politics... What resonates for me is what I greatly admire in all Thorpe's work: the complex depth, and the texture and poetry of his storytelling language
Financial Times
An intimate depiction of family life... Vivid and luminous
Independent on Sunday
An intricate fiction which reminds us gently that war wrecks lives in ways too tangled to anticipate
Times Literary Supplement
Because this is Adam Thorpe, there are only two things you know for certain: that the writing will be gorgeous, silky-smooth; and that the plot will be entirely original, defying categorisation...enjoy
Sunday Telegraph
Superior novel...wincingly precise in his imagery and technically adept... An electric and darkly gleeful read
Daily Mail