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BRAT
Gabriel Smith
其他書名
A Ghost Story
出版
Simon and Schuster
, 2024-06-06
主題
Fiction / General
Fiction / Ghost
Fiction / Horror
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Psychological
Fiction / Gothic
Fiction / Visionary & Metaphysical
Fiction / Coming of Age
Fiction / Political
Fiction / Family Life / General
Fiction / Family Life / Siblings
Fiction / Sea Stories
Fiction / Mashups
Fiction / Satire
Fiction / Magical Realism
Fiction / Noir
Fiction / Absurdist
Fiction / Small Town & Rural
Fiction / Neurodiversity
Fiction / Animals
Fiction / World Literature / England / 21st Century
Fiction / City Life
ISBN
1398525324
9781398525320
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=V4TWEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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“Gabriel Smith has written a truly unique and surprising book. He is the rarest thing: a distinctive stylist on the line and structure level. Brat is so strange and so funny. I laughed a lot while reading.”
Rachel Connolly, author of
Lazy City
'Iconic', Radio 1
'i've never heard of you. good luck with your book tho !' Charli XCX on
X,
formerly
Twitter
I was in the waiting room. Then I was in the examination
room.
Gabriel’s skin is falling off.
His dad is dead.
He owes his editor a novel.
His girlfriend won’t answer his calls.
Tasked by his horribly well-adjusted brother with clearing out the family home for sale, Gabriel’s sanity quickly begins to unravel. His parents’ old manuscripts appear to change each time he reads them. A bizarre home video hints at long-buried secrets. And there’s a hideous man in the garden.
Disquieting and hilarious, taut yet lyrical, blisteringly-paced but formally inventive,
Brat
is a mediation on grief, art and love that will leave you altered, breathless and desperate for more.
From a stunningly original new talent, this is a debut novel unlike anything you have read before.
“Messy with glitched realities and body horror, Brat breathes the same thrillingly claustrophobic air as Inland Empire and Ubik. It’s a skin-shedding ouroboros of grief and laughter, and the most brain-melting British debut I’ve read in ages.”
Ed Park, author of
Same Bed Different Dreams
“Gabriel Smith’s prose is like if Joan Didion and Shirley Jackson took Xanax and used the internet. Brat is a sharp, eerie, confident debut about grief, memory, art, and so much more. Smith is a major new talent.”
Jordan Castro, author of
The Novelist
“Gabriel Smith’s jauntily creepy and hilarious tale of a grief-stalked scapegrace’s sloughing-off and regeneration of selves in the filial murk of a moldering homestead is a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for a new, quaking generation. Brat will unnerve and seduce you.”
Garielle Lutz, author of
Worsted
