'Doyle is as good as everyone – from John Boyne to Colm Tóibín – says he is' Daily Mail
A young man in a dark depression roams the vast, formless landscape of a Dublin industrial park where he meets a vagrant in the grip of a dangerous ideology. A woman fleeing a break-up finds herself taking part in an unusual sleep experiment. A man obsessed with Nietzsche clings desperately to his girlfriend’s red shoes. And whatever happened to Killian Turner, Ireland’s vanished literary outlaw?
Lost and isolated, the characters in these masterful stories play out their fragmented relationships in a series of European cities, always on the move; from rented room to darkened apartment, hitchhiker's roadside to Barcelona nightclub. Rob Doyle, a shape-shifting drifter, a reclusive writer, also stalks the book's pages.
Layering narratives and splicing fiction with non-fiction, This is the Ritual tells of the ecstatic, the desperate and the uncertain. Immersive, at times dreamlike, and frank in its depiction of sex, the writer's life, failed ideals and the transience of emotions, it introduces an unmistakable new literary voice.
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I'm tempted to quote Nietzsche back at Rob Doyle: he's not a writer – he is dynamite! Except – like Nietzsche – he’s a tremendous writer too. And I have a suspicion that the author of this provocative and thrilling collection is going to get even better
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A bold, original and ambitious collection of stories from the author of the Irish Book Award-shortlisted Here Are The Young Men – a powerful and fearless new literary voice
The collection of stories everyone will be talking about in 2016. Highly intelligent, inventive, shocking and ambitious, they follow the acclaimed debut novel Here Are the Young Men, which was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781408865378
Publisert
2017-01-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
170 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208
Forfatter