Topics of Conversation - A novel
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| Verlag | Penguin Random House |
| Auflage | 2021 |
| Seiten | 224 |
| Format | 13,1 x 1,5 x 20,3 cm |
| Gewicht | 227 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9780525566366 |
| Bestell-Nr | 52556636EA |
A compact tour de force about sex, violence, and self-loathing from a ferociously talented new voice in fiction, perfect for fans of Sally Rooney, Rachel Cusk, Lydia Davis, and Jenny Offill.
Shrewd and sensual, Popkey's debut carries the scintillating charge of a long-overdue girls' night." O, The Oprah Magazine
A Best Book of the Year by TIME, Esquire, Real Simple, Marie Claire, Glamor, Bustle, and more
Composed almost exclusively of conversations between women the stories they tell each other, and the stories they tell themselves Topics of Conversation careens through twenty years in the life of an unnamed narrator hungry for experience and bent on upending her life. In exchanges about shame and love, infidelity and self-sabotage, Popkey touches upon desire, disgust, motherhood, loneliness, art, pain, feminism, anger, envy, and guilt. Edgy, wry, and written in language that sizzles with intelligence and eroticism, this novel introduces an audacious and immensely gifted new novelist.
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Named a best book of the year by TIME, Esquire, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Marie Claire, Glamor, and Bustle
Lyrical. . . . Smart and raw.
The Washington Post
Sally Rooney-esque. . . . Popkey's sentences careen breathlessly as her halting, staccato prose mirrors the churning within the narrator's mind. . . . A shrewd record of the act of unflinchingly circling these amorphous notions of pain, desire and control.
The New York Times Book Review
Masterly.
The New Yorker
Electrifying. . . . Shrewd and sensual, Popkey's debut carries the scintillating charge of a long-overdue girls night.
O, The Oprah Magazine
Slim but potent... has the flavor of Rachel Cusk. . . . Provocative. . . . Sure to spark conversation.
NPR
Formally adventurous and blisteringly current. . . . In glittering prose, Popkey illuminates the performative nature of storytelling, assessing the degree to which the stories we tell about our lives are fictions.
Esquire
As [the narrator] explores her own history through a shifting lens of female rivalries and friendships, the book's surface coolness begins to peel away, revealing the raw, uncommon nerve of a radically honest storyteller.
Entertainment Weekly
Masterfully controlled, delightfully chilly.
The Boston Globe
Icily intelligent. . . . Reading Topics of Conversation [is] as thrilling as being told a secret.
The San Francisco Chronicle
Perceptive, biting. . . . There s much to relate to and dogear in this slim book.
Real Simple
Bedazzling. . . . A slender volume with the power of lightning.
BookPage
Rich and rigorous.
Kirkus Reviews