Worlds from the Word's End
Published on 7. September 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-911508-10-6 (ISBN)
Description
The much-anticipated fiction follow-up to Vertigo, this collection cements Joanna Walsh's reputation as one of the sharpest writers of this century. Wearing her learning lightly, Walsh's stories make us see the world afresh while showing us she has read the world. In 'Like a Fish Needs a ...' - perhaps the funniest, most freewheeling story ever written about cycling (and Freud and and and ...) you read shenanigans worthy of Flann O'Brien. Meanwhile, in 'Worlds from the Word's End', Walsh conjures up a country in which words themselves fall out of fashion - something that will never happen wherever Walsh is read.
Reviews / Votes
'Joanna Walsh is fast becoming one of our most important writers.' Deborah Levy-----------'Walsh's writing has intellectual rigour and bags of formal bravery.' Melissa Harrison, Financial Times------------'Haunting and unforgettable stories.' Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick----------'Profoundly affecting.' Alex Preston, Best Books of 2016, The Guardian----------'Beautifully simple and unembellished.' Claire Hazelton, The Guardian----------'Beautifully wrought.' Cathy Rentzenbrink, Stylist----------'Intriguing, one I return to and discover more layers in each time.' Elizabeth Reapy, Irish Times Books of the Year----------'By turns funny, surreal, modernist, remaining at all times accessible.' Sarah Gilmartin, Irish Times----------'A genuinely original collection, sharp and sparse.' Mike McCormack, Irish Independent----------'Walsh is a sublimely elegant writer.' Sarah Ditum, New Statesman----------'Splendidly wry and offbeat ... both intellectual and aware.' Lesley McDowell, Sunday Herald----------'Indefinable.' Big Issue North----------'Think Renata Adler's Speedboat with a faster engine.' Steph Cha, Los Angeles Times----------'Her stories reveal a psychological landscape lightly spooked by loneliness, jealousy and alienation.' Heidi Julavits, New York Times----------'Vertigo is a funny, absurd collection of stories.' Maddie Crum, The Huffington Post----------'Her writing sways between the tense and the absurd.' Jonathon Sturgeon, Flavorwire----------'A feat of language.' Kirkus, Starred Review----------'Walsh is an inventive, honest writer.' Publishers Weekly----------'This collection makes the familiar alien, breaking down and remaking quotidian situations, and in the process turning them into gripping literature.' Vol. 1 Brooklyn----------'Moments of blazing perspicacity, creativity, intelligence, and dark humour are insanely abundant in [Walsh's] writing.' Natalie Helberg, Numero Cinq----------'Vertigo is a writer's coup, an overthrow of everyday language.' Darcie Dennigan, The RumpusMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
High Wycombe
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
147 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-911508-10-6 (9781911508106)
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08/2017
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Person
Joanna Walsh is a writer and illustrator. Her writing has appeared in Granta, The Stinging Fly, Gorse and other magazines, and has been anthologised in Dalkey's Best European Fiction 2015, Salt's Best British Short Stories 2014 and 2015 and elsewhere. A story collection, Fractals, was published in 2013, and her memoir Hotel was published in 2015. She writes literary and cultural criticism for The Guardian, the New Statesman and The National, is the fiction editor at 3:AM Magazine, and created and runs the Twitter hashtag #readwomen, heralded by the New York Times as 'a rallying cry for equal treatment for women writers'.