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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Catherine Lacey , Saskia MaarleveldPublisher: Blackstone Publishing Imprint: Blackstone Publishing Dimensions: Width: 16.50cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 15.50cm Weight: 0.249kg ISBN: 9781441730725ISBN 10: 1441730729 Publication Date: 13 December 2016 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsA serious, frequently brilliant novel with a sustained intensity that is rare in fiction. -- Wall Street Journal Satisfies all my inchoate readerly impulses-including the primary one of getting out of my own skin and into someone else's. -- New Yorker Searching, emotionally resonant...dreamy and fierce at the same time...[It] impressed me and held me to my chair. -- New York Times Holds the reader rapt for 244 pages, vividly situating us-entrapping us, really. -- Chicago Tribune As Elyria increasingly feels that she is 'a human non sequitur' and perhaps 'a form of radiation, ' Lacey brilliantly captures her decline through long, winding sentences. Her descent is as harrowing as it is magnetic. -- Cleveland Plain Dealer Lacey's debut novel has emotional power, depth, and subtle humor. -- Publishers Weekly Lacey's debut novel has emotional power, depth, and subtle humor. -- Publishers Weekly As Elyria increasingly feels that she is 'a human non sequitur' and perhaps 'a form of radiation, ' Lacey brilliantly captures her decline through long, winding sentences. Her descent is as harrowing as it is magnetic. -- Cleveland Plain Dealer Holds the reader rapt for 244 pages, vividly situating us-entrapping us, really. -- Chicago Tribune Searching, emotionally resonant...dreamy and fierce at the same time...[It] impressed me and held me to my chair. -- New York Times Satisfies all my inchoate readerly impulses-including the primary one of getting out of my own skin and into someone else's. -- New Yorker A serious, frequently brilliant novel with a sustained intensity that is rare in fiction. -- Wall Street Journal Author InformationCatherine Lacey is a novelist and author whose work has appeared in Guernica, the Atlantic, the Believer, the New York Times, McSweeney's Quarterly, the Paris Review online, Electric Literature, and many others. She was named among the Faces to Watch by the Los Angeles Times in 2017 and a New Voice by Granta in 2014. She has earned fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and Columbia University, where she earned an MFA in nonfiction. Saskia Maarleveld is an experienced voice-over actress and Earphones Award-winning narrator. Raised in New Zealand and France, she is highly skilled with accents and dialects, and many of her books have been narrated entirely in accents other than her own. In addition to audiobooks, her voice can be heard in animation, video games, and commercials. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |