Everything is Teeth
Published on 6. August 2015
128 pages
978-1-4481-9221-2 (ISBN)
Description
Evie Wyld was a girl obsessed with sharks. Spending summers in the brutal heat of coastal New South Wales, she fell for the creatures. Their teeth, their skin, their eyes; their hunters and their victims.
Everything is Teeth is a delicate and intimate collection of the memories she brought home to England, a book about family, love and the irresistible forces that pass through life unseen, under the surface, ready to emerge at any point.
Everything is Teeth is a delicate and intimate collection of the memories she brought home to England, a book about family, love and the irresistible forces that pass through life unseen, under the surface, ready to emerge at any point.
Reviews / Votes
A visual memoir with beautifully drawn illustrations by Joe Sumner. -- Danuta Kean * Independent on Sunday * Its minute observations and most unsettling moments stayed with me, like a shark tooth kept in a pocket, a souvenir of someone else's life. -- Charlotte Runcie, 4 stars * Telegraph * It is remarkable how an autobiographical - I stress this - book can enact a movement away from the self and become the repository of so much humility. -- Neel Mukherjee * Independent * Wyld tells the story of her obsession and fascination with the shark, and charts the undercurrents, tensions and joys of family life. Model-maker Joe Sumner's illustrations, full of tension and grace, are a haunting accompaniment. -- Louise Gorrod * Simple Things * Sumner's wondrous art is a perfect visual correlative to Wyld's spare lyricism. * i * A lovely, complex, elegiac book. -- Claire Allfree, 4 stars * Metro * The perfect marriage of sparse but beautiful prose with elegant and effective imagery. * Bookmunch * Wyld ... uses her signature oblique style to excellent effect in conjuring up a child's world of everyday nightmares. -- Katherine Hughes * Guardian * If you have never read a graphic novel before, this powerful and moving example is the perfect place to start. -- Sephanie Cross * Lady * Poignant and rather perfect. -- Claire Black * Scotsman *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Fixed format
File size
137,34 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4481-9221-2 (9781448192212)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Evie Wyld | Joe Sumner
Everything is Teeth
Book
08/2015
Jonathan Cape
€21.50
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Persons
Evie Wyld is the award-winning author of four novels and one graphic novel. She has won the Betty Trask Award, Miles Franklin Award, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Encore Award, Jerwood Fiction Prize and the European Union Prize. In 2013 she was included in Granta's once-a-decade list of Best of Young British Novelists. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and helps run an independent bookshop in Peckham called Review. Joe Sumner is a London-based model maker and illustrator. Everything is Teeth is his first book. For more of his work stop by www.josephsumner.com.
