Jackdaw

Jackdaw
Tade Thompson
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Hardback
h200 x 132mm - 160pg
6 Oct 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781800811652
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In this shocking, and at times darkly comic, novel, a psychiatrist hired to write a short piece on Francis Bacon becomes obsessed with the artist, his life, and the characters who surrounded him. As he become consumed with the need to understand Bacon, and to create his own art, his grip on reality becomes increasingly tenuous, and he is haunted by disturbing figures. This short, bold piece of fiction, explores how the passion needed to create art can also destroy the artist.
A darkly brilliant meditation on art, obsession and identity. * Mike Carey, author of The Girl With All the Gifts * Jackdaw blurs the lines of fiction and memoir and reality itself, and the result is as disturbing as it is thrilling. Tade Thompson, this mad genius, somehow created a literary equivalent of a Francis Bacon painting. I' m in awe. * Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World and The Pallbearers Club * Like Joyce' s Nighttown sequence, Jackdaw dwells timelessly along some ever-undefined border between dreams, the actual, the creatively imagined, and hard-edged hallucination. It is brutal, unremitting and, very much in its own steadfast manner, brilliant. * James Sallis, author of Drive * By turns disturbing and hilarious, Jackdaw gets closer to Bacon' s appalling truths about humanity and the treacherous flesh that embodies it than any non-fictional work could do . . . Thompson' s prose, contaminated by Bacon' s unflinching view of the human animal, makes for vital, unsettling reading. * Will Maclean, author of The Apparition Phase *
Born in London to Yoruba parents, Tade Thompson is a writer best known for his Arthur C Clarke Award- and Nommo Award-winning novel Rosewater, and the Shirley Jackson Award nominated novella The Murders of Molly Southbourne. His novels, novellas and short stories have also been finalists for the Locus Awards, the Hugo Award, the Philip K. Dick Award and the British Science Fiction Award, among others. He lives and works in the United Kingdom.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781800811652
Published: 6 Oct 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Profile Books
Publisher: Profile Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 200mm
Width: 132mm
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 260g
Pages: 160

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