Reservoir 13: A Novel

PRAISE FOR RESERVOIR 13 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Winner of the Costa Novel Award Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017 Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2017 Named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kirkus Reviews , & the Los Angeles Review “McGregor's book achieves a visionary power . . . he has written a novel with a quiet but insistently demanding, even experimental form. The word 'collage' implies something static and finally fixed, but the beauty of Reservoir 13 is in fact rhythmic, musical, ceaselessly contrapuntal . . . A remarkable achievement [and a] subtle unravelling of what we think of as the conventional project of the novel.” —James Wood, The New Yorker “McGregor is a beautiful, controlled writer, who can convey the pathos of a life in a few lines. Despite the large cast of characters, each feels specific and real. . . . [An] unconventional but affecting novel.” — The New York Times Book Review “Jon McGregor has revolutionized that most hallowed of mystery plots: the one where some foul deed takes place in a tranquil English village that, by the close of the case, doesn’t feel so tranquil anymore. . . . McGregor’s writing style is ingenious.” —Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post “Disturbing, one–of–a–kind . . . Most books involving crime and foul play provide the consolation of some sort of resolution. But Mr. McGregor's novel, which was long–listed for this year's Man Booker Prize, shows how life, however unsettlingly, continues in the absence of such explanation.” —Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal “An intricate and absorbing mosaic–like structure of miniature stories, scenes and snapshots. . . . While Reservoir 13 starts out with the familiar hallmarks of a crime novel, it quickly develops into a quite different literary beast, one that acquires power and depth through bold form and style, not gripping drama and suspense . . . This is unconventional storytelling, a daring way to tell a tale, but one that yields haunting and stimulating results.” — Star Tribune (Minneapolis) “Fiercely intelligent . . . [An] astonishing new novel . . . strange, daring, and very moving . . . The book is a rare and dazzling feat of art that also (in my reading of it) outs us, in a gentle way, for a certain gratuitous drama–seeking tendency we all tend to have as readers—a tendency that makes it harder to see the very real, consequential, beautiful, and human–scaled dramas occurring all around is in real life, in every moment (in nature, in human affairs).” —George Saunders, The Paris Review Daily More Praise for Jon McGregor “Jon McGregor is a writer who will make a significant stamp on world literature. In fact, he already has.” —Colum McCann “Jon McGregor writes with frightening intelligence and impeccable technique. Every page is a revelation.” —Teju Cole “Jon McGregor’s stories are full of unremarkable landscape, destabilizing drama, and people— pinned in place by themselves. But they gleam with endearing detail. His writing is unnerving, unconventional and lovely.” —Leanne Shapton “These stories are illuminated by Jon McGregor’s fearless and humane imagination. Both tragic and comic, they form a polyphonic portrait of a people and a place. Exhilarating.” —Katie Kitamura “Jon McGregor's uncanny stories linger long after you have finished them. He quietly inserts distinct, convincing voices into vivid and compelling landscapes.” ―Dana Spiotta Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. They gathered at the car park in the hour before dawn and waited to be told what to do. It was cold and there was little conversation. There were questions that weren't being asked. The missing girl's name was Rebecca Shaw. When last seen she'd been wearing a white hooded top. A mist hung low across the moor and the ground was frozen hard. They were given instructions and then they moved off, their boots crunching on the stiff ened ground and their tracks fading behind them as the heather sprang back into shape. She was five feet tall, with dark-blonde hair. She had been missing for hours. They kept their eyes down and they didn't speak and they wondered what they might fi nd. The only sounds were footsteps and dogs barking along the road and faintly a helicopter from the reservoirs. The helicopter had been out all night and found nothing, its searchlight skimming across the heather and surging brown streams. Jackson's sheep had taken the fear and scattered through a broken gate, and he'd been up all hours bringing them back. The mountain-rescue teams and the cave teams and the police had found nothing, and at midnight a search had been called. It hadn't taken much to raise the volunteers. Half the village was out already, talking about what could have happened. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Jon McGregor is the author of four novels and two story collections. He is the winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literature Prize, the Costa Novel Award, the Betty Trask Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters E.M Forster Award, and has been long–listed three times for the Man Booker Prize, most recently in 2017 for Reservoir 13 . He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nottingham, England, where he edits The Letters Page , a literary journal in letters. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Book Description Marketing $15,000 marketing and publicity budget $15,000 marketing and publicity budget Co-ops available and encouraged Co-ops available and encouraged Endorsements sought from Yiyun Li, Tom Perrotta, Jeffrey Eugenides, Daniel Woodrell, and more Endorsements sought from Yiyun Li, Tom Perrotta, Jeffrey Eugenides, Daniel Woodrell, and more Goodreads and Shelf Awareness giveaways and paid social media promotions Publicity Goodreads and Shelf Awareness giveaways and paid social media promotions Publicity Seeking coverage beyond usual literary outlets like the New York Times (i.e. USA Today, People) Seeking coverage beyond usual literary outlets like the New York Times (i.e. USA Today , People ) National media coverage, broadcast and podcast coverage; men’s mags like GQ, Esquire, Playboy National media coverage, broadcast and podcast coverage; men’s mags like GQ , Esquire , Playboy Widespread outreach to librarians and book clubs Awards Widespread outreach to librarians and book clubs Awards All major awards available to non-US citizens All major awards available to non-US citizens --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. Reservoir 13 is deeply stirring and incredibly poetic. While the intricacies of relationships and the echo of sorrow over one family's loss ripples through years of ordinary days, the simple flow of daily life in a small town will resonate with everyone who has lived in or visited a rural area. This beautiful and melancholic book is perfect for anyone who wants to explore the deep connections of a small but tight-knit community. -- "American Booksellers Association" [A] village that is still haunting me, and which, because of the rich detail of the prose, I feel I've lived in before, and for which, on closing the book, I found myself homesick. -- "George Saunders, Booker Prize-winning author" A humane and tender masterpiece. -- "Irish Times" A work of intense, forensic noticing: an unobtrusively experimental, thickly atmospheric portrait of the life of a village. -- "Times Literary Supplement (London)" An ambitious tour de force that demands the reader's attention...a singular and haunting story. -- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)" An atmospheric, meticulously crafted novel, begins like a mystery then quickly morphs into something altogether different...A stunningly good, understated novel told in a mesmerizing voice. -- "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)" Bates narrates the story with precisely the English accent one would imagine in this seemingly quaint village. HIs calm, low-key delivery perfectly sets the mood for the story...Bates has narrated the story to mirror McGregor's vision. -- "Booklist (audio review)" Brilliant...McGregor's novel's subtly devastating impact ultimately imparts wisdom about the tenuous and priceless gift of life. -- "Booklist (starred review)" Disturbing, one-of-a-kind. -- "Wall Street Journal" Excels at charting how, over the years, relationships fray, snap, or twine together...McGregor again highlights the remarkable in the everyday. -- "Sunday Times (London)" Haunting and heartbreaking...His best yet. -- "Guardian (London)" Jon McGregor has revolutionized that most hallowed of mystery plots: the one where some foul deed takes place in a tranquil English village that, by the close of the case, doesn't feel so tranquil anymore. -- " Washington Post" Matt Bates...[is] an excellent choice of narrator for an audiobook that explores the minutiae of how people return to daily life after a tragedy has struck...Listeners will hear a tightly controlled, low-voiced portrayal of inexplicable loss. Fans of literary fiction delivered in the style of radio theater will enjoy the experience. -- "AudioFile" McGregor's writing is extraordinary, and...[a] treatise on timelessness and human nature...Highly recommended. -- "Library Journal (starred review)" Novels aspire to be social documents, group portraits, measurers of time, renovators of the ordinary, but few come close to achieving those ambitions. This entrancing book does. -- "New Yorker" One I wish I'd written myself...Its structure, pace, detail, tone, humanity-it's a quiet masterpiece. -- "Roddy Doyle, New York Times bestselling author" The novel asks the question: What would happen if the television cameras stayed? If they turned away from the supposedly newsworthy event and instead zoomed in one by one on each house in the village and showed us the lives inside?...[McGregor] can convey the pathos of a life in a few lines...[This is a] gesture toward the sweep of history, reminding us that the struggles that seem so momentous to one group of people will someday be forgotten. -- "New York Times" --This text refers to the audioCD edition. Read more