Attrib. and Other Stories

Attrib. and Other Stories
Eley Williams
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Paperback
h203 x 132mm - 160pg
18 May 2021 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9780593312353
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"It' s just the real inexplicable gorgeous brilliant thing this book. I love it in a way I usually reserve for people. " --Max Porter A dazzling, prizewinning short story collection that showcases a bold new talent Eley Williams has been a literary sensation ever since this collection of experimental short fiction was published in the UK. Lauded as "elegant" (The Guardian) and "exhilarating" (Vanity Fair), Attrib. and Other Stories won the James Tait Black Prize, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, and was named a best book of the year by The Guardian. Attrib. presents a cast of unforgettable characters standing at the precipice of emotional events (a disastrous breakup, a successful date, an unexpected arrival) and finding it fiendishly impossible to express themselves. With intimate, irreverent, and playful prose, Eley Williams rejoices in both the possibilities and limitations of language, as well as the very human need to be known and understood--despite our own best efforts. Original and inventive in the vein of Lydia Davis, Deborah Eisenberg, and Amy Hempel, these stories are "emotionally delicate and tenderly introspective" (New Statesman) and "an absolute must-read" (The London Magazine).
"Exhilarating. " -Vanity Fair "Elegant. . . Vividly imagined. " -The Guardian "She is a writer for whom one struggles to find comparison, because she has arrived in a class of her own: witty, melancholy, occasionally sensual, occasionally mordant, elegantly droll without the kind of hipster quirkiness that makes me want to hurl books at the wall. She has in common with George Saunders the ability to be both playful and profound, and we are lucky to have her. " -Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent "It' s just the real inexplicable gorgeous brilliant thing this book. I love it in a way I usually reserve for people. " -Max Porter, author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers "Think William Gass, Lydia Davis or Anne Carson, and you won' t be too wrong. " -London Review of Books "An emotionally delicate and tenderly introspective collection. " -New Statesman "An absolute must-read for anyone remotely interested in the contemporary short story. " -The London Magazine
ELEY WILLIAMS is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is the author of The Liar' s Dictionary,and her work has appeared in The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story, Liberating the Canon, The Times Literary Supplement, and London Review of Books. She lives in London.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780593312353
Published: 18 May 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Anchor Books
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 132mm
Spine: 11mm
Weight: 184g
Pages: 160

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