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Peach
Artikel-Nr:
9781408886519
Veröffentl:
2019
Erscheinungsdatum:
10.01.2019
Seiten:
112
Autor:
Emma Glass
Gewicht:
104 g
Format:
198x130x15 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Emma Glass was born in Wales in 1987 and is now based in London, where she writes and works as a children's nurse. Her debut novel Peach was published by Bloomsbury in 2018, has been translated into seven languages and was long-listed for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Her second novel Rest and Be Thankful will be published by Bloomsbury in 2020. @Emmas_Window
_______________SELECTED BY THE INDEPENDENT AND THE OBSERVER AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018_______________'An immensely talented young writer ... Her fearlessness renews one's faith in the power of literature ' - George Saunders, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize'Poetic' - Independent 'The language is scintillating, the emotional heft remarkable' - Observer 'Daring' - Sunday Times'Ferocious, startling, all-consuming' - Daisy Johnson, author of Fen_______________Peach is a teenage girl like any other. She has college, and her friends, and her parents and the new baby, and her gorgeous boyfriend Green. She has her friend Sandy, and Sid the cat, and homework to do. But something has happened - something unspeakable - and her world has become unfamiliar, fractured into strange textures and patterns. Reeling through her refracted universe, Peach knows that the people she loves are in danger, real danger. If she is not to be swallowed whole, Peach must summon all her courage and dig deep into something nameless and strange that lies within her._______________'Powerfully felt, sinister, vivid' - Literary Review'This is a book to be devoured in a single sitting. Glass is an exciting new author to know' - Vogue'An impressive achievement' - Big Issue
An astonishing debut by a visionary new voice; 'A strange and original work of art' - George Saunders, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize
A lyrical, succulently written tale of violence, consumption and carnality, Peach spins the unspeakable into poetry with mesmerising sleight of hand