Moderate To Poor, Occasionally Good
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A Granta Best Young British Novelist'A thrilling love for the stuff of language ... Magical' JON McGREGOR'Poignant and playful'DAILY MAIL 'A writer with few real rivals'IRISH TIMES'A visionary writer'...
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A Granta Best Young British Novelist'A thrilling love for the stuff of language ... Magical' JON McGREGOR'Poignant and playful'DAILY MAIL 'A writer with few real rivals'IRISH TIMES'A visionary writer' JAN CARSON A Granta Best Young British Novelist''A thrilling love for the stuff of language … Magical'' JON McGREGOR‘Poignant and playful’DAILY MAIL ‘A writer with few real rivals’IRISH TIMES''A visionary writer'' JAN CARSONThe stunning new collection of stories from the award-winning author of The Liar’s Dictionary and Attrib. and Other Stories.Granta Best Young British novelist and acclaimed author of Attrib. and other stories, Eley Williams returns with a thrilling collection of short stories exploring the nature of relationships both intimate and transient – from the easy gamesmanship of contagious yawns to the horror of a smile fixed for just a second too long.A courtroom sketch artist delights in committing portraits of their lover to paper but their need to capture likenesses forever is revealed to have darker, more complex intentions. A child’s schoolyard crush on a saint marks a confrontation with the reality of a teenage body in flux. Elsewhere, an editor of canned laughter loses their confidence and seeks divine intervention, and an essayist annotates their thoughts on Keats by way of internet-gleaned sex tips.Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good hums with fossicking language and ingenious experiments in form and considers notions of playfulness, authenticity and care as it holds relationships to account: their sweet misunderstandings, soured reflections, queer wish fulfilments and shared, held breaths.‘Undeniably a skilful book’TELEGRAPH‘Stories that work from the inside out… glancing,intriguing’GUARDIAN''Erudite and audacious'' KIERAN GODDARD‘Frequently brilliant and deeply pleasurable’ CAOILINN HUGHES‘I don’t know anyone else who can write like this … What a joy!'' BEN PESTER‘A joy for the head and the heart'' RUBY COWLING
Detaljer
Forlag
Fourth Estate
ISBN
9780008618933
Sprog
Engelsk
Udgivelsesdato
18-07-2024
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
3219402
EAN nr.
9780008618933
Varegruppe
Fiction paperback
Højde/Dybde (mm)
17
Bredde (mm)
133
Længde (mm)
216
Vægt (g)
212