Delphi

Delphi
Clare Pollard
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Hardback
h204 x 132mm - 224pg
28 Jul 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780241558539
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An electrifying, darkly funny and heartbreaking novel about the way we live now; the way we lived before and the stories, connections and consolations that help us keep on living in a world where everyone is watching and yet none of us feels seen. This is a story about now. It' s a story about a woman, and a family. It' s about the dramas unfolding on our screens and behind the curtains of our homes, and how time and certainty and, sometimes, those we love can slip away. But it' s also about before. It' s about the questions we have always asked and the answers that are coming for us whether we like them or not. Extraordinary, electrifying, irreverent and heartbreaking, Delphi is a mesmerising story of our pasts, our presents and our futures, and how we keep on living in a world that is ever-more uncertain and absurd.
' Consoling, harrowing, hilarious. I feel like it' s healed me . . . Pollard' s narrator is so funny and so radically honest it leaves you reeling' * Luke Kennard, author of Notes on the Sonnets * Delphi is a compact miracle of a book * Evie Wyld, author of The Bass Rock * ' Bold, brave and uncompromising, Pollard has found a way to write about the last couple of years which is both truthful and enjoyable to read, which I didn' t think was possible. Exhilarating, exciting, rare and beautiful. ' * Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of Write It All Down * ' Vivid as fireworks, Delphi explodes with the ambivalence, rage and dread of middle years lived within a world of pandemic and climate collapse. Both terrifying and exhilarating' * Doireann Ni Ghriofa, author of A Ghost in the Throat * ' Using language that charms and beguiles, Clare Pollard cleverly creates moments of the darkest deja vu, so that I was swept up into a story which I was both unnerved and reassured to recognise' * Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground * ' Clare Pollard' s DELPHI delivers an urgency unlike any I' ve experienced. I loved this book so much; the language, the humour, the style, which reminded me of both Patricia Lockwood and Sheila Heti. A brilliant novel born of searing eloquence and sinister wit' * Jackie Polzin, author of Brood *
Clare Pollard is an award-winning poet and playwright based in London. She is the author of five poetry collections and the Editor of the Modern Poetry in Translation magazine. Delphi is her first novel.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780241558539
Published: 28 Jul 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Fig Tree
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 204mm
Width: 132mm
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 500g
Pages: 224

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