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No One Is Talking About This
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 and the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021
No One Is Talking About This
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 and the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021
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Description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021
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'A literary star' Hadley Freeman, Guardian
'An intellectual and emotional rollercoaster' Daily Mail
'I can't remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book' David Sedaris
'It moved me to tears' Elizabeth Day
'Patricia Lockwood is a completely singular talent' Sally Rooney
'Takes us on a complex journey' Financial Times
'A formidably gifted writer' New York Times Book Review
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This is a story about a life lived in two halves.
It's about what happens when real life collides with the increasing absurdity of a world accessed through a screen.
It's about where we go when existential threats loom, and the high stakes of reality that claim us back.
It's about living in world that contains both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary.
Irreverent and sincere, poignant and delightfully profane, No One Is Talking About This is a meditation on love, language and human connection from one of the most original voices of our time.
Product details
| Published | 27 Sep 2021 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781526652300 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Dimensions | 216 x 135 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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I have been in headlong love with Patricia Lockwood's hilarious and subversive mind since her memoir Priestdaddy, but her first novel, No One Is Talking About This, sent me reeling. Everything about this book is testament to her wicked genius
Lauren Groff, Red Magazine, Books of the Year 2021
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I finally read No One Is Talking About This after everyone recommending it to me all year, and I'm so, so happy I did. Please, please read this book
Lorde
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Lockwood is an incontrovertibly gifted writer. Her sentences are routinely surprising, her voice a startling agglomeration of poetic clarity and hectic comedy
Guardian
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Often filthy and irreverent, sometimes extremely funny, and ultimately surprisingly poignant, No One Is Talking About This offers more proof of Lockwood's particular genius
Telegraph
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A work that feels intensely relevant to our fractured time . . . Wonderfully intricate
Independent
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Lockwood has paid attention more closely than perhaps any other human on earth to what it's like to be alive right now
Vanity Fair













