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Show Them a Good Time
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Description
A NEW STATESMAN, IRISH TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR
Winner of the Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year 2019
'A masterclass in the short story – bold, irreverent and agonisingly funny' SALLY ROONEY
'Demands repeated reading' JON McGREGOR
'Announces the arrival of a brilliant talent' FINANCIAL TIMES
An urgent and unforgettable collection of stories, Show Them a Good Time explores types - men and women, their assigned roles and meanings - in modern society.
A young, broke Irish woman narrates her relationship with a successful comedian in New York; two hapless university students take to the stage in a bid to assert their autonomy; a school teacher makes her way through a series of dead-end dates, gamely searching for love or distraction as the world teeters towards ruin.
The characters in these magnificently accomplished stories are haunted as much by the future as they are by their pasts. Exuberant, irreverent and loaded with dark humour, Show Them a Good Time marks the arrival of a strikingly original new voice in fiction.
Product details
Published | 03 Jun 2019 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 256 |
ISBN | 9781526611925 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Dimensions | 216 x 135 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Highly addictive
Observer
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These stories are very funny, and very sad, usually at the same time. Which, as Flattery shows us brilliantly, is the best time
Jon McGregor
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Exhilarating. Flattery's judgments crackle with cruel, clear sight ... Flattery writes with empathy, freedom and virtuosic technique
Financial Times
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Smart as a whip, unusual, and very very funny, Flattery's distinctive prose is a real treat
Claire-Louise Bennett
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Filled with dark, daring and compassionate fables of womanhood
Stylist
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Flattery tells the truth but tells it slant, so that from her sentences, to her symbolism, to her zany, often surrealist plots, her stories fizz with humour and surprise
Irish Independent