Banal Nightmare

In Halle Butler''s world, everyone hates each other, every day is excruciating in its mundanity, every thought is the beginning of an Escherian journey round and round in hell, and somehow the whole thing is unbelievably funny. With the force of an episode of marijuana psychosis and the extreme detail of a hyperrealistic work of art, Banal Nightmare attempts transcendence through anxiety and dissociation, nailing a series of contemporary characters - better pray you''re not one of them - to the wall>

About the author

Halle Butler is a writer living in New York City. Her first novel, Jillian, was called the "feel-bad book of the year" by the Chicago Tribune. Her second novel, The New Me, was named a Best Book of the Decade by Vox and a Best Book of the Year by Vanity Fair, Vulture, Chicago Tribune, Mashable, Bustle, and NPR, and the New Yorker called it a "definitive work of millennial literature." She was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree.

Product details

• Authors: Halle Butler
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.05.2025
• EAN: 9781399618236
• ISBN: 978-1-399-61823-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Readings/interpretations/reading notes > English; Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / World Literature / American / 21st Century, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary