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Outlawed (Hardcover)
Anna North
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R708
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Discovery Miles 5 900
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB
PICK MAJOR TV ADAPTATION IN DEVELOPMENT BY AMY ADAMS 'Calling it
The Handmaid's Tale crossed with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
goes some way to describe this novel's memorable world, but it is
also wholly its own' KIRKUS '2021 is already a year that could use
a little joy. Here to provide some is Outlawed . . . It's an
absolute romp and contains basically everything I want in a book:
witchy nuns, heists, a marriage of convenience, and a midwife
trying to build a bomb out of horse dung' Vox 'Outlawed sets a high
bar for the 12 months of publishing still to come . . . It upends
the tropes of the traditionally macho and heteronormative genre
while also being a rip-snortin' good read, too' THE WEEK (Most
Anticipated Books of the Year) 'North is a riveting storyteller . .
. Reader, you are in for a real treat' JENNY ZHANG 'Fans of
Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy finally get the Western they
deserve' ALEXIS COE 'A thrilling tale eerily familiar but utterly
transformed ... In North's galloping prose, it's a fantastically
cinematic adventure that turns the sexual politics of the Old West
inside out' WASHINGTON POST 'A western unlike any other, Outlawed
features queer cowgirls, gender nonconforming robbers and a band of
feminists that fight against the grain for autonomy, agency and the
power to define their own worth' MS. 'A grand, unforgettable tale'
ESME WEIJUN WANG In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw.
On the day of her wedding-dance, Ada feels lucky. She loves her
broad-shouldered, bashful husband and her job as an apprentice
midwife. But her luck will not last. It is every woman's duty to
have a child, to replace those that were lost in the Great Flu. And
after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren
women are hanged as witches, Ada's survival depends on leaving
behind everything she knows. She joins up with the notorious Hole
in the Wall Gang. Its leader, a charismatic preacher-turned-robber,
known to all as The Kid, wants to create a safe haven for women
outcast from society. But to make this dream a reality, the Gang
hatches a treacherous plan. And Ada must decide whether she's
willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of
future for them all.
'If The Girl on the Train was the woman of 2015, then Sophie Stark
is this year's model. Anna North's novel, The Life and Death of
Sophie Stark, has been a hit in America, with Lena Dunham
describing its protagonist as a "totally unforgettable female
antihero". Out now - soon every girl on every train will be reading
it' Sunday Times Who is the real Sophie Stark? The Life and Death
of Sophie Stark is the story of an enigmatic film director, told by
the six people who loved her most. Brilliant, infuriating,
all-seeing and unknowable, Sophie Stark makes films said to be
'more like life than life itself'. But her genius comes at a
terrible cost: to her husband, to the brother she left behind, and
to an actress who knows too much. With shades of We Are All
Completely Beside Ourselves, A Visit from the Goon Squad and
Where'd You Go, Bernadette, it combines a uniquely appealing
sensibility with a compulsively page-turning plot. 'Thriller-paced,
with mysteries revealed at every turn. The great mystery at the
centre is Sophie Stark, a totally unforgettable female anti-hero
who conforms to absolutely none of our expectations and suffers
deeply for it' Lena Dunham 'North is a natural, butter-smooth
storyteller' Maggie Shipstead, author of SEATING ARRANGEMENTS 'I
read THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SOPHIE STARK with my heart in my mouth.
Not only a dissection of genius and the havoc it can wreak, but
also a thunderously good story' Emma Donoghue, author of ROME
'Jennifer Egan, eat your heart out' Sam Baker 'A captivating
portrait of the artist as a young woman. It's a story that examines
the notion of artistic legacy and meditates on the ethics involved
in film-making and storytelling' THE INDEPENDENT 'Gripping and
graceful' THE GUARDIAN 'The year's must read' GLAMOUR
Hundreds of miles off the frozen coast of what was once California
is America Pacifica, where those who fled the dawn of the new ice
age have tried to recreate their former home . . . America Pacifica
is an island hundreds of miles off the coast of California - the
only warm place left in a world in the grip of a new ice age. Darcy
Pern is seventeen; her mother has gone missing, and the novel
details her quest to find out the truth about her disappearance - a
quest which soon becomes an investigation of the disturbing origins
of America Pacifica itself, and its sinister and reclusive leader,
a man known only as Tyson. America Pacifica invites comparison with
the work of Margaret Atwood and China Mieville, but also with
Cormac McCarthy's The Road, for its post-apocalyptic scenario and
the touching relationship between Darcy and her mother, and the
Stieg Larsson trilogy for its implacable central character who is
determined to uncover the truth.
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