Crustaceans By Andrew Cowan.SIGNED COPY,FIRST EDITION HARDBACK.2000

Bibliographic Details\n\nTitle: Crustaceans\n\nPublisher: Sceptre 21/09/2000\n\nPublication Date: 2000\n\nBinding: Hardcover ,SIGNED COPY,FIRST EDITION\n\nReview: The eponymous crustaceans of Andrew Cowan's third novel are not only the hard-shelled sea creatures of sandy English shorelines, but the hard-lipped, reticent characters who believe that saying nothing is preferable to stirring up any kind of emotion. It begins with a stark cold melancholy--\""December and one foot of snow.\"" Paul, once married and a father, drives to the seaside in winter, sleeps \""thinly\"" and talks constantly to his son, Euan. Except Euan is no longer there. On route, Paul remembers his own boyhood, his taciturn, self-absorbed father, whose \""eyes flared out at me, his sculptor's eyes, as if I too were a piece of metal he could twist into shape\"". Paul's mothering was haphazard and inadequate, making him an over-concerned parent, obsessively detailing all aspects of Euan's life with the zeal that accompah