'A wild, sleazy, drug-filled odyssey ... Doyle’s maverick novel deserves the accolades coming its way' Independent
'The best work to date from a writer who gets better and better with each release' Irish Indepdendent
'A masterclass in what not to do' New Statesman
'His best book so far: riddling, irreverent, fearless' TLS
Rob has spent most of his confusing adult life wandering, writing, and imbibing literature and narcotics in equally vast doses. Now, stranded between reckless youth and middle age, between exaltation and despair, his travels have acquired a de facto purpose: the immemorial quest for transcendent meaning.
On a lurid pilgrimage for cheap thrills and universal truth, Doyle’s narrator takes us from the menacing peripheries of Paris to the drug-fuelled clubland of Berlin, from art festivals to sun-kissed islands, through metaphysical awakenings in Asia and the brink of destruction in Europe, into the shattering revelations brought on by the psychedelic DMT.
A dazzling, intimate, and profound celebration of art and ageing, sex and desire, the limits of thought and the extremes of sensation, Threshold confirms Doyle as one of the most original writers in contemporary literature.
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If this blurb were a movie title it would go like this: Threshold, or, how I learned to stop worrying (about what sort of novel this is) and love the narrator, whose brilliance and humour on drugs and literature, sex and boredom and death, leave me in awe
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A wild odyssey into universal truth from one of the most exciting and original voices in contemporary literature
Rob Doyle was included by Sebastian Barry in his 2018 laureateship speech as one of the most exciting writers in the golden age of Irish fiction. A weekly books columnist for the Irish Times, his many fans include Colm Toibin, Geoff Dyer, Kevin Barry, Joanna Walsh and Colin Barrett
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781526607089
Publisert
2021-02-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
240 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336
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