The Odyssey

The Odyssey
Lara Williams
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Trade Paperback
h216 x 135mm - 272pg
21 Apr 2022 UK
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9780241502815
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Wickedly funny and slyly poignant, a very modern satire on cruise ships, crappy jobs and capitalism from the prize-winning author of Supper ClubIngrid is a gift shop girl. Before that she was an IT technician, and before that a croupier, and before that a nursery nurse. She has worked on an enormous, luxury cruise liner for the past five years and in that time she has done more jobs than she can remember. She isn' t good at any of them but she' s good at pretending. And the endless maze-like corridors of the ship are the perfect place to forget the life she left behind on land and the person she used to be. Until the day that Ingrid is selected for the ship' s prestigious ' mentorship scheme' - a mysterious initiative run by its captain and self-anointed lifestyle guru, Keith - and slowly but surely things start to go wrong. Part The Circle, part Convenience Store Woman and part My Year of Rest and Relaxation, The Odyssey is a merciless takedown of modern capitalism and our anxious, ill-fated quests for something to believe in. And as its title suggests, it is a voyage that will eventually lead its unlikely heroine all the way home. Though she' d do almost anything to avoid getting there. . .
I have never read anything like this. . . Deliciously unpredictable, a testament to Lara Williams' fearlessness in diving into the absurd, cringeworthy, and downright uncomfortable aspects of life -- Mateo Askaripour, author of ' Black Buck' Perceptive, enigmatic and thought-provoking - I couldn' t put it down. Wonderful! -- Amelia Horgan, author of ' Lost in Work' The Odyssey is destined to become a classic of avoidance literature. With terrific bite, Lara Williams disorients her protagonist and her readers. Dislocated by the interminable movement between grime and gloss, the sea and land, we all just might outwit what we most want to escape -- Amy Key, poet and author
Lara Williams is the author of Treats and Supper Club. Treats was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Edinburgh First Book Award and the Saboteur Awards and longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, and Supper Club won the Guardian ' Not the Booker' Prize, was named as a Book of the Year 2019 by TIME and Vogue, and has been translated into six languages. Lara Williams lives in Manchester and is a contributor to the Guardian, Independent, Times Literary Supplement, Vice, Dazed and others.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780241502815
Published: 21 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Hamish Hamilton
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 350g
Pages: 272

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