The Nowhere City
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:18th Mar '21
Should be back in stock very soon
'Marvellous entertainment' Sunday Times
Just married and newly arrived in Los Angeles are Paul and Katherine Cattleman. Paul responds immediately to the sunny, sprawling cosmopolitan city but to Katherine the main impression is of dirt and smog. Paul explores his surroundings and discovers Ceci, a girl who could be the incarnation of the city's uninhibited ways, while Katherine meets Iz a psychiatrist who recognises her unhappiness and sets out to help her. Under the bright west coast sun, the city begins to affect the couple in separate, subtle but significant ways, shining new light on their marriage with moving, funny and unexpected consequences.
I’m mad about Lurie… I have a thing for over-educated adulterers in fiction * Guardian *
I am re-reading with enormous delight and greed. If you're new to them, lucky you: marvellously astute comedies of social, moral and sexual manners, their witty exuberance is nothing short of inspirational. -- Helen Simpson
Lurie shows some really fine ironic humor… An incisive and very witty novel * Kirkus Reviews *
Perhaps more shocking than she knows - shocking like Jane Austen, not Genet
The Queen Herod of contemporary fiction
Marvellous entertainment * Sunday Times *
A very witty, assured, sustained creation of both people and place * New Statesman *
Lurie treats Los Angeles as worth looking at closely, not just as a backcloth...often very funny, always easily readable * Punch *
Absorbing new cautionary tale...intelligent and entertaining * Observer *
ISBN: 9781784876289
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm
Weight: 256g
320 pages