Chris Cleave
Paperback | Pages: 384 pages Rating: 3.69 | 14978 Users | 2389 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Gold |
| ISBN: | 145167273X (ISBN13: 9781451672732) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Sophie, Zoe Castle, Kate Meadows, Tom Voss, Jack Argalls |
| Setting: | Athens,2004(Greece) Manchester, England,2012 Lusanne,2012(Switzerland) |
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Building on the tradition of Little Bee, Chris Cleave again writes with elegance, humor, and passion about friendship, marriage, parenthood, tragedy, and redemption. Gold is the story of Zoe and Kate, world-class athletes who have been friends and rivals since their first day of Elite training. They've loved, fought, betrayed, forgiven, consoled, gloried, and grown up together. Now on the eve of London 2012, their last Olympics, both women will be tested to their physical and emotional limits. They must confront each other and their own mortality to decide, when lives are at stake: What would you sacrifice for the people you love, if it meant giving up the thing that was most important to you in the world?Mention Epithetical Books Gold
| Title | : | Gold |
| Author | : | Chris Cleave |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 384 pages |
| Published | : | April 30th 2013 by Simon & Schuster (first published January 1st 2012) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Sports. Contemporary |
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Ratings: 3.69 From 14978 Users | 2389 ReviewsDiscuss Epithetical Books Gold
Sh*t happens.Sometimes it's your fault. You make bad decisions. You decide to push when you shouldn't. You sleep with the wrong person. You have unprotected sex when you should have used a condom. You say hurtful things to someone when you should have kept your mouth shut.Other times, the sh*t is just the universe's random happenings. Your child gets cancer. Your mom commits suicide. A car runs over the only person who ever really loved and understood you.This story of Chris Cleave's isCleave is popular and his books sell, so what do I know? I hated The Other Hand but decided to give this one a go because I was interested in the sports rivalry theme. Cleave actually does a decent job of getting into the minds of focused sports people and some of his descriptive passages are fine - especially those depicting the physical and mental processes of athletes during races.But...this is a schmaltzy, mawkish load of tosh, with one dimensional characters and a central friendship that
There is a lot more wrong with this book than there is right, which is to say that while there are some touching scenes, it is overall really really bad.Chris Cleave, whose Little Bee struck me as rather overrated and overly cute, takes on the Olympics and kids with cancer. I am making a new rule: stop writing about kids with cancer. It is the new Holocaust. What a nifty way to ensure that your readers will care about your characters without you having to, say, create characters. As to the
I know it is hard to not compare an author's previous work their current work but it worked out well for me because I read "Little Bee" at least ten years ago so I've had time to separate Cleave's work. I thoroughly enjoyed "Gold" and I know I did because I could not put it down. I was thrown into the cycling world with Kate and Zoe, both are world class cyclist vying for their last shot of Olympic gold... get this, they are also long time friends. I loved how fast paced the book was, my only
Cleave is popular and his books sell, so what do I know? I hated The Other Hand but decided to give this one a go because I was interested in the sports rivalry theme. Cleave actually does a decent job of getting into the minds of focused sports people and some of his descriptive passages are fine - especially those depicting the physical and mental processes of athletes during races.But...this is a schmaltzy, mawkish load of tosh, with one dimensional characters and a central friendship that
Well, what I thought of first in describing this book is...meh. Had I read this before 'Little Bee' and 'Incendiary' I'd have put Chris Cleave in that category of 'I'm at the airport and need a book fast and this one will be at least readable but not great' authors. I'll still give him another chance based on the earlier books...but watch it, Mr. Cleave. I am onto you. You think I'll buy anything with your name on it and you are skating on thin ice. There wasn't a believable character in this
An alchemist is needed to make this gold!Such a disappointmentThe race was on! For me it was a race between throwing it across the room or getting to the finish. Only the fact that it was on my Kindle saved it being thrown. And only the hope that it would improve got me to the finish.I had been so eagerly awaiting this. I had read pre-release review and interviews, so I knew that it was a change of pace to The Other Hand (aka Little Bee) and Incendiary. But I did expect the depth, the empathy,
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