A gut-punch novel of girlhood in early noughties Yorkshire from a blazing new voice
'It feels essential. You will read nothing else like it this year' GUARDIAN
Ask anyone non-Northern, they'll only know Donny as punch line of a joke or place they changed trains once ont way to London.
But Doncaster's also the home of Rach, Shaz and Kel, bezzies since childhood and Donny lasses through and through. They share everything, from blagging their way into nightclubs to trips to the Family Planning clinic when they are late. Never mind that Rach is skeptical of Shaz's bolder plots; or that Shaz, who comes from a rougher end of town, feels left behind when the others begin charting a course to uni; or that Kel sometimes feels split in two trying to keep the peace - their friendship is as indestructible as they are. But as they grow up and away from one another, a long-festering secret threatens to rip the trio apart.
We Pretty Pieces of Flesh takes you by the hand and leads you through Doncaster's schoolyards, alleyways and nightclubs, laying bare the intimate treacheries of adolescence and the ways we betray ourselves when we don't trust our friends. Like The Glorious Heresies and Shuggie Bain, it tracks hard-edged lives and makes them sing, turning one overlooked place into the very centre of the world.
'A novel brimming with rough poetry, heart and mischief' FERDIA LENNON
'Blistering, brilliant, savage and smart' EIMEAR McBRIDE
'Unforgettable...a wondrous, luminous novel' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH
'Brilliant and original on every level... she is a writer like nobody else' ELIZABETH McCRACKEN
Rezensionen / Stimmen
[A] lacerating, exhilarating debut novel... It manages to be both boisterous and bleak, life-enhancing and life-denying, familiar and yet wholly original. It feels essential. You will read nothing else like it this year -- Catherine Taylor * Guardian * Blistering, brilliant, savage and smart. This is a superb debut and Colwill Brown is the real thing -- EIMEAR McBRIDE, author of A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing Tender and raucous, Shaz, Kel, and Rach's friendship is brilliantly realized. We Pretty Pieces of Flesh is a novel brimming with rough poetry, heart, and mischief -- FERDIA LENNON, author of Glorious Exploits Its gloriously individual voice makes this standout first novel glow with vigor and hope * Wall Street Journal * Dazzling... We don't know the last book that captured teenage girlhood and female friendship this deftly * Oprah Daily * With this debut, Colwill Brown announces herself as unforgettable... a wondrous, luminous novel -- NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH, author of Chain-Gang All-Stars Colwill Brown is, simply, brilliant and original on every level... We Pretty Pieces of Flesh is astonishing, as hilarious and wrenching as life itself -- ELIZABETH McCRACKEN, author of The Hero of This Book A brilliant portrait of female friendship, nearly the equal in honesty and subtlety to Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels * Kirkus (starred review) * Like the most beguiling fiction about friendship and girlhood, Brown's heartful, humane debut will pull readers in and make them wonder how anyone survives either * Booklist (starred review) * So good. Fearlessly authentic, authentically fearless, hilarious, devastating, superbly observed, ingeniously structured... An exceptional piece of work -- BEN HINSHAW, author of Exactly What You Mean
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Maße
Höhe: 215 mm
Breite: 145 mm
Dicke: 35 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-78474-557-8 (9781784745578)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Colwill Brown was born and raised in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. She holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where she received a James A. Michener Center Fellowship, and an MA in English Literature from Boston College. Her work has appeared in Granta, Prairie Schooner and elsewhere. For fifteen years, she's lived with ME/CFS, a debilitating neurological disease triggered by a virus that, due to systemic medical neglect, currently has no treatment. A proud Donny lass, she claims to have played bass guitar in (nearly) every rock venue on South Yorkshire's toilet circuit.
