No One Is Talking About This - Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 and the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021
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| Verlag | Bloomsbury Trade |
| Auflage | 2022 |
| Seiten | 224 |
| Format | 12,9 x 1,5 x 19,6 cm |
| Gewicht | 160 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781526629777 |
| Bestell-Nr | 52662977UA |
The first novel from master of the zeitgeist Patricia Lockwood, No One is Talking About This is a classic book for our times about what it feels like to live and think online
Klappentext:
'Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation' Namita Gokhale'A masterpiece' Guardian'I really admire and love this book' Sally Rooney 'An intellectual and emotional rollercoaster' Daily Mail 'I can't remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book' David Sedaris'A rare wonder . . . I was left in bits' Douglas Stuart_ WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2022 __ SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 __ SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 __ A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK _______________________________________________This is a story about a life lived in two halves. It's about what happens when real life collides with the increasing absurdity of a world accessed through a screen. It's about living in world that contains both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary.It's a meditation on love, language and human connection from one of the most original voices of our time .______________________________________________'An utterly distinctive mixture of depth, dazzling linguistic richness, anarchic wit and raw emotional candour' Rowan WilliamsA 2021 Book of the Year: Sunday Times, Guardian, Daily Mail, Telegraph, Evening Standard, The Times, New Statesman, Red, Observer, Independent, Daily Telegraph
Rezension:
Astonishing and wholly original . . . Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation of new writers who grew up under the constant pressures of real-time news and social media Namita Gokhale, Chair judge for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2022