Emergency is a novel about the dissolving boundaries between all
life on earth. Stuck at home alone under lockdown, a woman recounts
her 1990s childhood in rural Yorkshire. She watches a kestrel
hunting, helps a farmer with a renegade bull, and plays out with
her best friend, Clare. Around her in the village her neighbours
are arguing, keeping secrets, caring for one another, trying to
hold down jobs. In the woods and quarry there are foxcubs fighting,
plants competing for space, ageing machines, and a three-legged
deer who likes cake. These local phenomena interconnect and spread
out from China to Nicaragua as pesticides circulate, money flows
around the planet, and bodies feel the force of distant power. A
story of remote violence and a work of praise for a persistently
lively world, brilliantly written, surprising, evocative and
unsettling, Daisy Hildyard's Emergency reinvents the pastoral novel
for the climate change era.
General
| Imprint: |
Fitzcarraldo Editions
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
April 2022 |
| First published: |
2022 |
| Authors: |
Daisy Hildyard
|
| Dimensions: |
197 x 125 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
224 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-913097-81-3 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-913097-81-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781913097813 |
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