The City Changes Its Face
by Eimear McBride
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Pub Date Feb 13 2025 | Archive Date Feb 13 2025
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Description
An intense story of passion, possessiveness and family from the trailblazing Eimear McBride, one of the most important novelists at work today.
‘Day. Another. London city and world. There before me as you were. I still see you as I saw you and long to be you, as I was you, all the way over again.’
1995. London. Outside the filthy window, the city rushes by. But up in the flat, there is only Eily and Stephen, nineteen and thirty-nine. The total obsession of new love.
Eighteen months later, a rainy Camden night. Eily and Stephen retrace
the course of their two-year romance now their world is merging with the commonplace and ties from the past are intruding. Stephen has reconnected with his long-lost teenage daughter Grace. Eily thinks about the future and their flat feels different.
The city changes its face.
Intimate, experiential, and immersive, The City Changes Its Face explores a passionate love affair tested to its limits.
Advance Praise
‘You don’t read a McBride novel so much as inhabit it for a brief, intense period; you are given the key-card to her characters’ minds, and suffer their grief and pain with them.’ GUARDIAN
‘A writer of remarkable power and originality.’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
‘Eimear McBride is that old- fashioned thing, a genius.’ ANNE ENRIGHT
‘A writer for whom language is an end not a means, a beginning not an end.’ JEANETTE WINTERSON
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9780571384211 |
| PRICE | £20.00 (GBP) |
