Lurid & Cute

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<p><i>'I had this vision very clearly of a book in which I would record my total experience, and I knew how it should sound: with all the tones that no one ever admires, the Gruesome, Tender, Needy, Sleazy, Boring, the Lurid and the Cute.</i></p><p>In this way the hero of Adam Thirlwells new novel describes the book you hold between your hands: a delirious tale of backchat and low tricks, all of which begin when our hero wakes beside a woman who is bleeding, unconscious and not, unfortunately, his wife... And then, of course, events get very much worse.</p><p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2015</b></p><p><b>WINNER OF THE E.M. FORSTER AWARD 2015</b></p>

Autorenportrait

Adam Thirlwell is the author of two novels,<i>Politics</i>and<i>The Escape</i>;<i></i>a novella,<i>Kapow!</i>; and a project including an essay-book which won a Somerset Maugham Award and a compendium of translations edited for<i>McSweeneys</i>. His work is translated into thirty languages. He has twice been selected as one of<i>Granta</i>s Best of Young British Novelists.

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