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Offseason: 'Phenomenal' MADELINE CASH, author of LOST LAMBS
Avigayl Sharp
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A blisteringly funny and transcendently deranged debut novel for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh, Patricia Lockwood and George Saunders'Obscenely good and very funny' CATHERINE LACEY'A startling fever dream of a novel' LUCY ROSE'So smart, weird and eerie . . . 'I recommend everyone buy it when it comes out' MADELINE CASH
A young woman who takes a job at an all-girls boarding school in a small coastal town to teach English literature - and to try, desperately, to escape the trap that is herself.
In between manic lectures that veer from Charles Dickens's Bleak House to the childhood maltreatment of her beloved Iosif Stalin and the generational legacy of the Holocaust, our fiercely observant but self-deluded narrator implicates everyone she meets in her quest to pin down where exactly her own life went wrong.
Obsessed with her own trauma and the trauma - real or imagined - of everyone around her, the quest to escape from her past is undermined by her inability to ever stop talking about it.
Serious and wise yet written with a delirious velocity, Offseason marks the arrival of a fiercely original literary talent.
'Indescribably brilliant . . . You've never read anything like it' ELIZABETH McCRACKEN
'A bonkers and beautifully written novel . . . Absorbing and original' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS
'Yes, Offseason is hilarious, eccentric and gleefully mean-spirited, but just when you think you know what Sharp is doing, she will shatter your heart. I haven't read something so incisive, so slyly tender in years' LISA McINERNEY 'A narrator who makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar' MICHAEL CHABON
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Avigayl Sharp is, quite simply, a mind-bogglingly brilliant writer, profound and hilarious, exciting and thought-provoking, unafraid and original: you've never read anyone like herAn obscenely good and very funny debut about the black hole of building your identity around the worst things that have ever happened to you. Unhinged in the best wayOffseason, full of voice, reads like Sharp's been writing novels for years . . . Hilariously deadpan, mordantly sardonic, Offseason is a knockout debutTo let us see the world reinvented through the eyes of a narrator who makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar, to have us laugh at what is painful and feel compassion when the narrator is lighting firecracker sentences to get us to look elsewhere - this is the eternal promise of the literary first novel. In Offseason, Avigayl Sharp fulfills that promise, amply, and with art and wit
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