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by Dan Rhodes (Author)
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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd (6 Mar 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1847670482
  • ISBN-13: 978-1847670489
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 177,806 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"'Hilarious and acutely affecting.' - Independent on Sunday 'Absolutely flawless comic writing. Original, fresh and funny.' - Observer 'Laugh-out-loud funny.' - Heat 'Smashing. Had me snorting like a hippo in mud.' - Sunday Herald"


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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, tender and really funny, 7 April 2007
By Snapdragon (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gold (Paperback)
Miyuki Woodward spends two weeks of each year away from her lover, Grindl, in a sleepy seaside village in Wales. She spends her time reading, walking, stuffing her face with macaroni cheese and frazzles. She also drinks in the local pub with short Mr Hughes, tall Mr Hughes, Mr Puw and Septic Barry.

The village is a place where much stays the same, but Miyuki feels a compulsion to do something creative with seven tins of gold paint, and this will have repercussions.

'Gold' is a character driven novel, but Rhodes' attention to detail and perfect obeservations make this a sheer joy. The book is in turns funny, tender, painful and beautiful. I really did laugh out loud reading about the pub landlord who reads that being deliberately rude to customers will attract a cult following of new customers.

This book was an unexpected pleasure. Highly recommended.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Don't try to paint the sunset, 1 April 2007
This review is from: Gold (Paperback)
"Gold" tells the story of Miyuke, a Welsh-Japanese junk food addict who spends her annual holiday away from her much-loved partner in Pembrokeshire among a bunch of mainly elderly pub bores. It might look like a beguilingly slow, comic read, but though the comedy is real it masks a serious purpose. It's about not trying to prolong moments - carpe diem, if you like, but having plucked it, don't try to make it last, because it isn't meant to. Miyuke's attempt to prolong the transient gold of a beach sunset by literally gilding the rocks is emblematic of this theme. Very readable, and in the end quite sad, as many of Rhodes' are, but the end is justified and feels right. And don't fall into the common error of English critics, ie thinking that comedy can't be profound and "serious" writers should avoid it. Most of them do avoid it, but only because it's so much harder than tragedy.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Short but packing a punch, 28 April 2008
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This started okay for me and I didn't expect to give it more than 3 stars to be honest. However, the second half of the book was much improved and we got to know the characters a bit more. Every year, for two weeks, Miyuki leaves her lover Grindl at home and visits the same seaside village. The locals know who she is but nothing about her. This year she decides to do something different which starts a chain of events that seem to change Miyuki.

An ambiguous ending (or so I thought) leaves you to wonder a lot. This really works in this case. The characters are so stereotypical of a local pub, it's fabulous. The novel is driven by the characters rather than the plot and I can why it was a little slow to begin with as they need to be drawn out for the reader to understand. A good short novel. One worth reading but not necessarily one that would make me seek out his other work.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Funny and touching
A nice read with some genuine laugh out loud moments. Nice observations of the South Wales area too.
Published 2 months ago by Inspiral Girl

5.0 out of 5 stars A sparkle of gold in the tide of literature
This is a difficult one to describe without ruining anything for potential readers. It opens with three men in a pub - short Mr Hughes, Mr Puw (with his black beard and pipe) and... Read more
Published 5 months ago by E. Potten

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Gold!
`Gold' starts when Miyuki Woodward arrives in the same seaside village in Wales that she comes to every year. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Simon Savidge "savidgeread...

2.0 out of 5 stars Sweet and deceptively simple
In a fashionable Murakami vein, Gold imagines an insecure lesbian holidaying alone in a remote Welsh village full of oddballs who spend most of their time in the pub. Read more
Published 12 months ago by John Lynham

5.0 out of 5 stars Laugh Out Loud
Anyone who is attracted by the words; quirky, unusual, funny, sad and unputdownable will love this little book. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Lincs Reader

5.0 out of 5 stars Gold - Genius
I loved this book and the all the characters in it. It is simply written, in the usual style of Dan Rhodes but beautifully so. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Donna Mcmanus

4.0 out of 5 stars Gently humorous, sharply sad.
A gentlly humorous novel about Miyuki and her annual trip to the same Welsh seaside village out of season, where she walks, reads, and drinks beer for a fortnight before going... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Annabel Gaskell

2.0 out of 5 stars All that glitters ...
While Gold is a pleasant enough and undemanding way of passing a few hours, it hardly lives up to the extravagant praise on the cover. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Welsh Girl

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Original
I'd never heard of Dan Rhodes until browsing the Lad Lit chart, which seems to fall into 2 genres, your shoot them up boys own Andy Mcnabb adventures or your lad's well observed... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Tom

3.0 out of 5 stars Gilty pleasure
Gold is the story of Miyuki Woodward's brief annual stay in a Welsh village populated by a number of offbeat characters, all of whom she meets each evening in the local pub, while... Read more
Published 22 months ago by A reader

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