Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

ISBN-13: 9780008589141 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Molly McGhee

Opis

The dark literary debut workplace novel - 'Stone-cold chilling' Halle Butler

Recenzje

'Fearlessly inventive and exquisitely poised ... trippy, incisive, and, most importantly, riotously funny' Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

'Here's an original mind brimming over with invention and comic ferocity' Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet

'Molly McGhee's luminary imagination makes this debut a wonder. Precision, humor, heart, this is a stunner' Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain-Gang All-Stars

'[An] insightfully nightmarish parable of the pervasive ravages of debt ... stone cold chilling' Halle Butler, author of The New Me

'An exuberant, poignant, freewheeling debut ... very funny' Jeff VanderMeer, author of Annihilation

'Funny, freaky, intellectually bold and always from the heart' Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask

'Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind is a revelation ... There's nothing like it, awake or asleep or anywhere in between' Hilary Leichter, author of Temporary

'Lively, vacillating between humor and heartbreak at breakneck speeds, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind is the rare novel that truly feels like it could've only been written by a single brilliant mind' Jean Kyoung Frazier author of Pizza Girl

'A deeply humane novel ... McGhee is a marvellous chronicler of the fantastic, the perverse, and the sublime' Kelly Link, author of White Cat, Black Dog

'Gripping ... Debt can take on a life of it's own, but when it's really good - like Jonathan Abernathy - so can art' Electric Lit

'The spiritual sibling of Severance, but creepier' Literary Hub

'Surrealist ... A scathing critique of capitalism' Time

'A brutal examination of the psychological pressures and ethical complexity required to survive under late capitalism ... Upton Sinclair meets modern workplace satire - with a lot of heart' Kirkus

O autorze

Molly McGhee is from a cluster of unincorporated towns outside of Nashville, Tennessee.
She completed her M.F.A. in fiction at Columbia University, where, in addition to receiving a Chair's Fellowship, she taught in the undergraduate creative writing department. She has worked in the editorial departments of McSweeney's, The Believer, NOON, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Currently living in Brooklyn, her work has appeared in The Paris Review.