Lurid & Cute
by Adam Thirlwell
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Pub Date Jan 29 2015 | Archive Date Jan 30 2015
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Vintage Digital
Description
'I had this vision very clearly of a book in which I would record my total experience, and I knew how it should sound: with all the tones that no one ever admires, – the Gruesome, Tender, Needy, Sleazy, Boring, the Lurid and the Cute.’
In this way the hero of Adam Thirlwell’s new novel describes the book you hold between your hands: a delirious tale of backchat and low tricks, all of which begin when our hero wakes beside a woman who is bleeding, unconscious and not, unfortunately, his wife... And then, of course, events get very much worse.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2015
WINNER OF THE E.M. FORSTER AWARD 2015
A Note From the Publisher
UK edition – available to read in UK, Commonwealth and Europe excluding Canada.
Advance Praise
'A novel where the humour is melancholic, the melancholy mischievous and the talent startling.'
Milan Kundera
'The Escape is one of the best British novels I’ve read this year for one reason; Thirlwell’s prose. At once effervescent and elegant, his narrative voice lifts the novel’s lecherous comedy beyond the sublunary lovers’ antics into a more rarefied sphere.'
Sarah Churchwell, Guardian
'A witty, irreverant and elegaic new novel... Haffner is a Quixote of our time.'
New York Times Book Review
Marketing Plan
Adam Thirlwell was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2013
Adam Thirlwell was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2013
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781448114016 |
| PRICE | £8.99 (GBP) |
