Behindlings

Informationen zum Autor Nicola Barker’s work has been translated into numerous languages, and received great critical acclaim and numerous prizes. Her work includes Love Your Enemies , Wide Open (International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), Clear (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize), Darkmans (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize) and The Yips (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize). She was named as one of Granta’s 20 Best Young British Novelists by in 2005. Klappentext A brilliantly funny novel from one of our most unconventional literary talents, Nicola Barker. Zusammenfassung A brilliantly funny novel from one of our most unconventional literary talents! Nicola Barker.

Report

'Marvellously inventive, a cornucopia of cornucopias all the way to its brilliant non-ending - its refusal to end. It is a new kind of book, and an intense kind of joy.' Ali Smith, TLS
'Compelling. Barker's narrative draws us in with the disturbing, surreal touch of a latter-day Lewis Carroll.' Michelene Wandor, Sunday Times
'Dazzling...She celebrates the complexity of human experience.' Frank Egerton, The Times
'Insanely inventive. Her vision of a marginal Britain populated by drifters and desperados is fired by a comic energy that dances on the edge of self-combustion.' Alex Clark, Guardian
'Barker's eccentrics are the stuff of pure farce. And they allow her to reinvent, joyously, the cogs, gears and mechanics of the genre. She knows, as Wodehouse also knew, how to rev up the language, do baroque variations on a phrase, even break into a kind of poetry. Sheer wit and energy make "Behindlings" an excellent candidate for a cult novel - and not just a very good novel about a cult.' Michael Pye, New York Times
'Fucked up, fucked off and totally, weirdly brilliant.' Eithne Farry, Elle
'Extraordinary. Full of deadpan wit, black comedy and visual slapstick, the novel delights most through its imaginative extravagances.' Katie Owen, Sunday Telegraph

Product details

• Authors: Nicola Barker, Barker Nicola
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.06.2003
• EAN: 9780007135264
• ISBN: 978-0-00-713526-4
• No. of pages: 535
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Popular Culture, Biography & True Stories, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Literary, Prose: non-fiction, FICTION / Action & Adventure, Essex, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Satire, Comedy & stand-up, Performing arts: comedy, TV tie-in humour, Humour collections & anthologies, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Biography and non-fiction prose, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: from c 2000, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Media tie-in humour