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LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2020
LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE
WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE
RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA CROWN AWARDS
2019 A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year, Little tells the
extraordinary story of a singular, diminutive crumb of a servant
girl turned entertainment mogul. 'A startlingly original novel'
Times Born in Alsace in 1761, the unsightly, diminutive Marie
Grosholtz is quickly nicknamed 'Little'. Orphaned at the age of
six, she finds employmet in Bern, Switzerland, under the charge of
reclusive anatomist, Dr Curtius. In time the unlikely pair form an
unlikely bond, and together they pursue an unusual passion: the
fine art of wax-modelling. Forced to flee their city, the doctor
and his protegee head for the seamy streets of Paris where they
open an exhibition hall for their uncanny creations. Though
revolution approaches, the curious-minded flock to see the wax
heads, eager to scrutinise the faces of royalty and reprobates
alike. At 'The Cabinet of Doctor Curtius', heads are made, heads
are displayed, and a future is built from wax. From the gutters of
pre-revolutionary France to the luxury of the Palace of Versailles,
from casting the still-warm heads of The Terror to finding
something very like love, Little is the unforgettable story of how
a 'bloodstained crumb of a girl' went on to shape the world...
I consider [Observatory Mansions] the best fiction yet published in
the 21st Century' Jeff Vandermeer 'All of Edward Carey's work is
profound and delightful' Max Porter '[Edward Carey, with
Observatory Mansions] proves the potential brilliance of the novel
form' John Fowles Observatory Mansions was once the Orme family's
ancestral home. Now it is a crumbing apartment block, stranded on a
traffic island and peopled with eccentrics. Alice Orme never stirs
from her bed, her husband lives in his old armchair, and Francis,
their son, practises his own art of stillness as a human statue in
the centre of the decaying city. He lives by his Law of White
Gloves, never touching anything without their protection, and
collects items for his secret exhibition - items stolen, not
because of any monetary worth, but because they are treasured by
the owners. This careful routine is shaken by the arrival of a new
resident, Anna Tap, half blind and vulnerable, but with a strange
gift for inspiring trust. As the other residents gradually open
their hearts to her, Francis realises he must act before she forces
him to confront his own past, and before she finds out about the
mysterious final object in his exhibition. But as the currents of
memory and desire swirl within Observatory Mansions' crumbling
walls, it seems the sinister Porter has plans of his own... Edward
Carey's debut is a novel of immense originality - a strangely
haunting landscape occupied by compelling and unforgettable
characters.
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The Swallowed Man (Hardcover)
Edward Carey; Illustrated by Edward Carey
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'Haunting. Geppetto's voice, full of wistful overemphases and
bewildered revelation, is absorbing as he takes in the oddity of
his situation. And the book, sentence by sentence, offers much in
which to luxuriate.' - Sunday Times 'Profound and delightful. It is
a strange and tender parable of two maddening obsessions; parenting
and art-making' - Max Porter 'Strange, moving and musical, it's a
delight' - A. L. Kennedy I am writing this account, in another
man's book, by candlelight, inside the belly of a fish. I have been
eaten. I have been eaten, yet I am living still. From the acclaimed
author of Little comes this beautiful and haunting imagining of the
years Geppetto spends within the belly of a sea beast. Drawing upon
the Pinocchio story while creating something entirely his own,
Carey tells an unforgettable tale of fatherly love and loss, pride
and regret, and of the sustaining power of art and imagination.
"An elegant and deeply moving meditation on friendship, family, and
life on earth. Rules for Visiting is a wonderful novel." -Emily St.
John Mandel, author of Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and
Station Eleven The national bestseller and an Indie Next List pick
Name a Best Book of the Year by O Magazine * Good Housekeeping *
Real Simple * Vulture * Chicago Tribune Named a Best Book of the
Summer by The Today Show * Good Morning America * Wall Street
Journal * San Francisco Chronicle * Southern Living Shortlisted for
the 2020 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Long-listed for the
2020 Tournament of Books Dry, witty, and unapologetic, May Attaway
loves literature and her work as a botanist for the university in
her hometown. More at home with plants than people, May begins to
suspect she isn't very good at friendship and wonders if it's
possible to improve with practice. Granted some leave from her job,
she sets out on a journey to spend time with four long-neglected
friends. Smart, funny, and full of compassion, Rules for Visiting
is the story of a search for friendship in the digital age, a
singular look at the way we stay in touch. While May travels, she
studies her friends' lives and begins to confront the pain of her
own. With simplicity and honesty, Jessica Francis Kane has crafted
an exquisite story about a woman trying to find a new way to be in
the world. This nourishing book, with its beautiful contemplation
of travel, trees, family, and friendship, is the perfect antidote
to our chaotic times.
'Haunting. Geppetto's voice, full of wistful overemphases and
bewildered revelation, is absorbing as he takes in the oddity of
his situation. And the book, sentence by sentence, offers much in
which to luxuriate.' - Sunday Times 'Profound and delightful. It is
a strange and tender parable of two maddening obsessions; parenting
and art-making' - Max Porter 'Strange, moving and musical, it's a
delight' - A. L. Kennedy 'A re-imagining of Pinocchio, told from
the viewpoint of the beast-entrapped Geppetto, it surprise and
delights, and saddens and gladdens, from start to finish.' - Jane
Graham I am writing this account, in another man's book, by
candlelight, inside the belly of a fish. I have been eaten. I have
been eaten, yet I am living still. 'Art objects live in the belly
of this marvellous novel, images swallowed by text, sustained by a
sublime and loving imagination. Like all Edward Carey's work The
Swallowed Man is profound and delightful. It is a strange and
tender parable of two maddening obsessions; parenting and
art-making' Max Porter 'Strange and lovely' Rhik Samadder 'A
beautiful and dark meditation on fatherhood, mercy, redemption and
the alchemy of isolation. Strange, moving and musical, it's a
delight' A. L. Kennedy From the acclaimed author of Little comes
this beautiful and haunting imagining of the years Geppetto spends
within the belly of a sea beast. Drawing upon the Pinocchio story
while creating something entirely his own, Carey tells an
unforgettable tale of fatherly love and loss, pride and regret, and
of the sustaining power of art and imagination.
'Roald Dahl by way of Charles Dickens' - Vox.com 'Dark and wildly
original urban fantasy tale' - The New York Times 'Delightful,
eccentric, heartfelt, surprising, philosophical, everything that a
novel for children should be' - Eleanor Catton, winner of the Man
Booker Prize 2013 'A rare work of individual brilliance' - Inis
magazine The Iremongers have taken up what was not wanted and
wanted it. Clod is an Iremonger. He lives in the Heaps, a vast sea
of lost and discarded items collected from all over London. At the
centre is Heap House, a puzzle of houses, castles, homes and
mysteries reclaimed from the city and built into a living maze of
staircases and scurrying rats. The Iremongers are a mean and cruel
family, robust and hardworking, but Clod has an illness. He can
hear the objects whispering. His birth object, a universal bath
plug, says 'James Henry', Cousin Tummis's tap is squeaking 'Hilary
Evelyn Ward-Jackson' and something in the attic is shouting 'Robert
Burrington' and it sounds angry. A storm is brewing over Heap
House. The Iremongers are growing restless and the whispers are
getting louder. When Clod meets Lucy Pennant, a girl newly arrived
from the city, everything changes. The secrets that bind Heap House
together begin to unravel to reveal a dark truth that threatens to
destroy Clod's world.
'Roald Dahl by way of Charles Dickens' - Vox.com 'Astonishing and
inventive, it calls out to be read' - The Sunday Times 'Dark and
wildly original urban fantasy tale' - New York Times 'All of Edward
Carey's work is profound and delightful' - Max Porter 'If this were
music, Carey would be Eric Satie. If it were film, he would be Tim
Burton.' - Newsday The ghastly climax to the gothic Iremonger
trilogy The dirt town of Foulsham has been destroyed, its ashes
still smoldering. Darkness lies heavily over the city, the sun has
not come up for days. Inside the houses throughout the capital,
ordinary objects have begun to move. Strange new people run through
the darkened streets. There are rumours of a terrible contagion.
From the richest mansion to the poorest slum people have
disappeared. The police have been instructed to carry arms. And
rats, there are rats everywhere. Someone has stolen a certain plug.
Someone is lighting a certain box of matches. All will come
tumbling down. The Iremongers have come to London.
'All of Edward Carey's work is profound and delightful' - Max
Porter 'Dark and wildly original urban fantasy tale' - The New York
Times 'If this were music, Carey would be Eric Satie. If it were
film, he would be Tim Burton.' - Newsday 'A rare work of individual
brilliance' - Inis magazine Dark, gothic and delightfully macabre,
the Iremonger family return... Foulsham, London's great filth
repository, is bursting at the seams. The walls that keep the muck
in are buckling, rubbish is spilling over the top, back into the
city that it came from. In the Iremonger family offices,
Grandfather Umbitt Iremonger broods: in his misery and fury at the
people of London, he has found a way of making everyday objects
assume human shape, and turning real people into objects. Abandoned
in the depths of the Heaps, Lucy Pennant has been rescued by a
terrifying creature, Binadit Iremonger - more animal than human.
She is desperate and determined to find Clod. But unbeknownst to
her, Clod has become a golden sovereign and is 'lost'. He is being
passed as currency from hand to hand all around Foulsham, and yet
everywhere people are searching for him, desperate to get hold of
this dangerous Iremonger, who, it is believed, has the power to
bring the mighty Umbitt down. But all around the city, things,
everyday things, are twitching into life...
'Haunting. Geppetto's voice, full of wistful overemphases and
bewildered revelation, is absorbing as he takes in the oddity of
his situation. And the book, sentence by sentence, offers much in
which to luxuriate.' - Sunday Times 'Profound and delightful. It is
a strange and tender parable of two maddening obsessions; parenting
and art-making' - Max Porter 'Strange, moving and musical, it's a
delight' - A. L. Kennedy 'A re-imagining of Pinocchio, told from
the viewpoint of the beast-entrapped Geppetto, it surprise and
delights, and saddens and gladdens, from start to finish.' - Jane
Graham I am writing this account, in another man's book, by
candlelight, inside the belly of a fish. I have been eaten. I have
been eaten, yet I am living still. 'Art objects live in the belly
of this marvellous novel, images swallowed by text, sustained by a
sublime and loving imagination. Like all Edward Carey's work The
Swallowed Man is profound and delightful. It is a strange and
tender parable of two maddening obsessions; parenting and
art-making' Max Porter 'Strange and lovely' Rhik Samadder 'A
beautiful and dark meditation on fatherhood, mercy, redemption and
the alchemy of isolation. Strange, moving and musical, it's a
delight' A. L. Kennedy From the acclaimed author of Little comes
this beautiful and haunting imagining of the years Geppetto spends
within the belly of a sea beast. Drawing upon the Pinocchio story
while creating something entirely his own, Carey tells an
unforgettable tale of fatherly love and loss, pride and regret, and
of the sustaining power of art and imagination.
Once the Orme family’s magnificent ancestral estate, Observatory Mansions is now a crumbling apartment complex, home to an eccentric group of misfits. One of them is Francis Orme, who earns his livelihood as a living statue. When not practicing “inner and outer stillness,” Francis steals the cherished possessions of others to add to his private museum. The other tenants are equally as odd: his mother and father, who haven’t interacted in years; a man who continually sweats and cries; a recluse who prefers television to reality; and a woman who behaves like a dog. When Anna Tapp arrives among them she stirs their souls, bringing long forgotten memories to the surface–and arousing fears that this new resident intends to provoke a metamorphosis. Reminiscent of Beckett, Ionesco, and Millhauser but startlingly original, Observatory Mansions is also unexpectedly beguiling. Upon its publication in England, it was a literary sensation, and John Fowles called it “easily the most brilliant fiction I’ve seen this year.”
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Little (Paperback)
Edward Carey; Illustrated by Edward Carey; Cover design or artwork by Luke Bird
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LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2020
LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE
WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE
RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA CROWN AWARDS
2019 'A highly original novel' - Sunday Times, PAPERBACK BOOKS OF
THE YEAR 2019 There is a space between life and death: it's called
waxworks. Born in Alsace in 1761, the unsightly, diminutive Marie
Grosholtz is quickly nicknamed 'Little'. Orphaned at the age of
six, she finds employmet in Bern, Switzerland, under the charge of
reclusive anatomist, Dr Curtius. In time the unlikely pair form an
unlikely bond, and together they pursue an unusual passion: the
fine art of wax-modelling. Forced to flee their city, the doctor
and his protegee head for the seamy streets of Paris where they
open an exhibition hall for their uncanny creations. Though
revolution approaches, the curious-minded flock to see the wax
heads, eager to scrutinise the faces of royalty and reprobates
alike. At 'The Cabinet of Doctor Curtius', heads are made, heads
are displayed, and a future is built from wax. From the gutters of
pre-revolutionary France to the luxury of the Palace of Versailles,
from casting the still-warm heads of The Terror to finding
something very like love, Little is the unforgettable story of how
a 'bloodstained crumb of a girl' went on to shape the world...
'Don't miss this eccentric charmer' @MargaretAtwood 'Absolutely
brilliant' Susan Hill 'Rich and engrossing, there is an
extraordinary potency to Carey's material ... A visceral, vivid and
moving novel' GUARDIAN 'In this gloriously gruesome imagining of
the girlhood of Marie Tussaud, mistress of wax, fleas will bite,
rats will run and heads will roll and roll and roll. Guts'n'gore
galore: I bloody loved it' SPECTATOR 'A tale as moving as it is
macabre' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'One of the most original historical novels
of the year... Macabre, funny, touching and oddly life-affirming,
Little is a remarkable achievement' SUNDAY TIMES 'Beautifully
published... poignant... absorbing' LITERARY REVIEW 'Clever and
intriguing' DAILY MAIL 'Marie's story is fascinating in itself, but
Carey's talent makes her journey a thing of wonder' NEW YORK TIMES
'By turns witty, ghoulish, poignant and curiously life-affirming,
Little is a historical novel unlike any other' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE
'It is Carey's uniquely inventive style that makes this novel so
completely, wickedly, addictive' BIG ISSUE 'Edward Carey is one of
the strangest writers we are privileged to have in this country'
OBSERVER 'Carey creates an indelible character in Little, sprinkles
idiosyncratic drawings throughout and folds his narrative in
cunning ways...' BBC 'Full of rich historical detail and beautiful
illustrations ... a rare treat of a novel that will stay with you
long after you turn the final page' HEAT 'Compulsively readable: so
canny and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity
and ingenuity that I am stymied for comparison. Dickens and David
Lynch? Defoe meets Atwood? Judge for yourself...' Gregory Maguire,
author of WICKED
'Roald Dahl by way of Charles Dickens' - Vox.com 'Dark and wildly
original urban fantasy tale' - The New York Times 'Delightful,
eccentric, heartfelt, surprising, philosophical, everything that a
novel for children should be' - Eleanor Catton, winner of the Man
Booker Prize 2013 'A rare work of individual brilliance' - Inis
magazine The Iremongers have taken up what was not wanted and
wanted it. Clod is an Iremonger. He lives in the Heaps, a vast sea
of lost and discarded items collected from all over London. At the
centre is Heap House, a puzzle of houses, castles, homes and
mysteries reclaimed from the city and built into a living maze of
staircases and scurrying rats. The Iremongers are a mean and cruel
family, robust and hardworking, but Clod has an illness. He can
hear the objects whispering. His birth object, a universal bath
plug, says 'James Henry', Cousin Tummis's tap is squeaking 'Hilary
Evelyn Ward-Jackson' and something in the attic is shouting 'Robert
Burrington' and it sounds angry. A storm is brewing over Heap
House. The Iremongers are growing restless and the whispers are
getting louder. When Clod meets Lucy Pennant, a girl newly arrived
from the city, everything changes. The secrets that bind Heap House
together begin to unravel to reveal a dark truth that threatens to
destroy Clod's world.
'I blame the pencil. I hadn't meant to do it. I wasn't thinking. It
just happened that way.' In March 2020, as lockdowns were imposed
around the world, author and illustrator Edward Carey published a
sketch on social media with a plan to keep posting a drawing a day
from his family home in Austin, Texas, until life returned to
normal. One hundred and fifty pencil stubs later, he was still
drawing. Carey's hand moved with world events, chronicling pandemic
and politics. It reached into the past, taking inspiration from
history, and escaped grim reality through flights of vivid
imagination and studies of the natural world. The drawings became a
way of charting time, of moving forward, and maintaining connection
at a time of isolation. This remarkable collection of words and
drawings from the acclaimed author of Little and The Swallowed Man
charts a tumultuous year in pencil, finding beauty amid the horror
of extraordinary times.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification:
++++ Tidal Lands: A Study Of Shore Problems Alfred Edward Carey,
Francis Wall Oliver Blackie and son limited, 1918 Coasts; Marshes,
Tide; Reclamation of land; Salt marshes
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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