Blue Ruin
Hari Kunzru
21 €
Coup de coeur
(Literature), by Adam
During the pandemic Jay, a middle-aged delivery driver, drops off a grocery order to an isolated estate in rural New York, only to run into Alice, his girlfriend from several decades earlierwhen he was a Young British Artist, and when his mind was awhirl with hard drugs and even harder theory. This reunion sends Jay back to London in the 90s, to reckon again with that last decade of the 20th-century when every element of human life finally became commodified. Blue Ruin is a deeply unsettling, and intensely thought provoking reflection on the impact capital has on people, on art, and those who create it.
In the latest novel from award-winning author Hari Kunzru, a failed artist who was big in the nineties grapples with his storied, difficult past and uncertain present, all while convalescing secretly in the cottage of his lost love, who just so happens to be married to his former best friend.
Publisher: Scribner UK
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 14 May 2024
Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 153 mm
ISBN: 9781398532748