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No One Is Talking About This
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 and the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021
No One Is Talking About This
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 and the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021
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* WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU, THE LATEST SENSATION FROM PATRICIA LOCKWOOD, OUT NOW *
'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 *
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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.
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'An utterly distinctive mixture of depth, dazzling linguistic richness, anarchic wit and raw emotional candour' Rowan Williams
A 2021 Book of the Year: Sunday Times, Guardian, Daily Mail, Telegraph, Evening Standard, The Times, New Statesman, Red, Observer, Independent, Daily Telegraph
Product details
| Published | 13 May 2021 |
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| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781526642882 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Lockwood is an incontrovertibly gifted writer. Her sentences are routinely surprising, her voice a startling agglomeration of poetic clarity and hectic comedy
Guardian
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Often filthy and irreverent, sometimes extremely funny, and ultimately surprisingly poignant, No One Is Talking About This offers more proof of Lockwood's particular genius
Telegraph
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A work that feels intensely relevant to our fractured time . . . Wonderfully intricate
Independent
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Lockwood has paid attention more closely than perhaps any other human on earth to what it's like to be alive right now
Vanity Fair
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Astonishing . . . No One Is Talking About This will frighten you, implicate you, and scrape your guts out, in the best way possible
Esquire
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Lockwood's conceit is smart, her prose original, hugely entertaining and witty . . . It is a story, simply, about love, selfless and delighted
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