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'Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation' Namita Gokhale 'A
masterpiece' Guardian 'I really admire and love this book' Sally
Rooney 'An intellectual and emotional rollercoaster' Daily Mail 'I
can't remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book'
David Sedaris 'A rare wonder . . . I was left in bits' Douglas
Stuart * WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2022 * * SHORTLISTED FOR
THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 * * SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR
FICTION 2021 * * A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK *
______________________________________________ This is a story
about a life lived in two halves. It's about what happens when real
life collides with the increasing absurdity of a world accessed
through a screen. It's about living in world that contains both an
abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in
the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary. It's a
meditation on love, language and human connection from one of the
most original voices of our time.
______________________________________________ 'An utterly
distinctive mixture of depth, dazzling linguistic richness,
anarchic wit and raw emotional candour' Rowan Williams A 2021 Book
of the Year: Sunday Times, Guardian, Daily Mail, Telegraph, Evening
Standard, The Times, New Statesman, Red, Observer, Independent,
Daily Telegraph
'Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation' Namita Gokhale 'A
masterpiece' Guardian 'I really admire and love this book' Sally
Rooney 'An intellectual and emotional rollercoaster' Daily Mail 'I
can't remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book'
David Sedaris 'A rare wonder . . . I was left in bits' Douglas
Stuart * WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2022 * * SHORTLISTED FOR
THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 * * SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR
FICTION 2021 * * A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK *
______________________________________________ This is a story
about a life lived in two halves. It's about what happens when real
life collides with the increasing absurdity of a world accessed
through a screen. It's about living in world that contains both an
abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in
the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary. It's a
meditation on love, language and human connection from one of the
most original voices of our time.
______________________________________________ 'An utterly
distinctive mixture of depth, dazzling linguistic richness,
anarchic wit and raw emotional candour' Rowan Williams A 2021 Book
of the Year: Sunday Times, Guardian, Daily Mail, Telegraph, Evening
Standard, The Times, New Statesman, Red, Observer, Independent,
Daily Telegraph
Introduced by Patricia Lockwood: Gothic tales from the mistress of
the weird behind frogman-romance Mrs Caliban for fans of Shirley
Jackson, Lucia Berlin and Patricia Highsmith. 'Wonderful.' Margaret
Atwood 'Genius.' Patricia Lockwood 'Remarkable.' Joseph Heller
'Perfect.' Max Porter ''Immensely skillful'. Ursula K. Le Guin
'Tender, erotic, singular.' Carmen Maria Machado 'Still outpaces,
out-weirds, and out-romances anything today.' Marlon James 'One of
the greatest short story writers we have.' The Times 'You are in
masterly hands as Ingalls lures you into a swamp of violence and
magic.' Sunday Times After a one-night-stand with the Angel
Gabriel, a monk is transformed into a pregnant woman. Lost in the
fog, two visitors are lured into a ruined candlelit mansion. A wife
confiscates her husband's homemade sex doll, only to demand her
own. Great-aunts warn of the deadly skin of the pearlkillers.
Rachel Ingalls' incomparable novellas are masterpieces: surrealist,
subversive, tragicomic. Prepare to meet what lurks beneath .
'Macabre, fantastic and haunting . . . One of the most brilliant
practitioners of American Gothic since Poe . . . Read her at your
peril.' Independent 'Fables whose unadorned sentences belie their
irreducible strangeness . . . In her vision of intimacy and
interdependence, you're simply not safe until everybody else is
dead . . . Brilliant.' New Yorker 'Resists definition . . . Her
work combines subtlety and horror, magic and stark realism, Greek
tragedy and happily-ever-afters . . . Rare and fine. ' Guardian
'Idiosyncratic, haunting, masterly . . . A modern fabulist making
myths which explode into strangeness.' Observer
'Priestdaddy caused a sensation when it hit bookshelves in 2017'
Vogue 'Glorious' Sunday Times 'Laugh-out-loud funny' The Times
'Extraordinary' Observer 'Exceptional' Telegraph 'Electric' New
York Times 'Snort-out-loud' Financial Times 'Dazzling' Guardian 'Do
yourself a favour and read this memoir!' BookPage WINNER OF THE
THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOUR The childhood of Patricia
Lockwood, the poet dubbed 'The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence,
Kansas' by The New York Times, was unusual in many respects. There
was the location: an impoverished, nuclear waste-riddled area of
the American Midwest. There was her mother, a woman who speaks
almost entirely in strange riddles and arnings of impending danger.
Above all, there was her gun-toting, guitar-riffing, frequently
semi-naked father, who underwent a religious conversion on a
submarine and found a loophole which saw him approved for the
Catholic priesthood by the future Pope Benedict XVI, despite
already having a wife and children. When an unexpected crisis
forces Lockwood and her husband to move back into her parents'
rectory, she must learn to live again with the family's simmering
madness, and to reckon with the dark side of her religious
upbringing. Pivoting from the raunchy to the sublime, from the
comic to the serious, Priestdaddy is an unforgettable story of how
we balance tradition against hard-won identity - and of how, having
journeyed in the underworld, we can emerge with our levity and our
sense of justice intact. 'Destined to be a classic . . . this
year's must-read memoir' Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club
'Irrepressible . . . joyous, funny and filthy . . . Lockwood blows
the roof off every paragraph' Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine
'Beautiful, funny and poignant. I wish I'd written this book' Jenny
Lawson, author of Furiously Happy 'A revelatory debut . . .
Lockwood's prose is nothing short of ecstatic . . . her portrait of
her epically eccentric family is funny, warm, and stuffed to
bursting with emotional insight' Joss Whedon 'Praise God, this is
why books were invented' Emily Berry, author of Dear Boy and
Stranger, Baby
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To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
Virginia Woolf; Edited by Stella McNichol; Foreword by Patricia Lockwood; Introduction by Hermione Lee; Illustrated by Alison Bechdel
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A must-have new edition of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, featuring
a cover illustrated by Alison Bechdel, The New York Times
bestselling author of Fun Home, and a new foreword by Patricia
Lockwood To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic
depiction of a family, the Ramseys, whose annual summer holiday in
Scotland falls under the shadow of war, and a meditation on
marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and
bitterness. The novel's use of stream of consciousness,
reminiscence and shifting perspectives gives it an intimate, poetic
essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an
utter rejection of all that had gone before.
'The work of a genuine original ... surreal ... funny ...
subversive' Sunday Times What if a deer did porn? Is it legal to
marry a stuffed owl exhibit? And what would Walt Whitman's tit-pics
really look like? Free-wheeling and surreal yet deadly serious, and
including the viral hit 'Rape Joke' ('An oblique mini-masterpiece'
- Guardian), this book shows one of our most original poets at her
virtuosic best. 'Lockwood has written a book at once angrier, and
more fun, more attuned to our times and more bizarre, than most
poetry can ever get' Stephen Burt, The New York Times Book Review,
Books of the Year 'Lockwood should enter the canon forever . . .
her lines left me crying on the subway' Kat Stoeffel, The Cut 'The
little hairs on my back rose often while reading Motherland
Fatherland Homelandsexuals . . . That's biological praise, the most
fundamental kind, impossible to fake' Dwight Garner, The New York
Times
The acclaimed second collection of poetry by Patricia Lockwood,
Booker Prize finalist author of the novel No One Is Talking About
This and the memoir Priestdaddy SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE
YEAR: The New York Times * The Boston Globe * Powell's * The Strand
* Barnes & Noble * BuzzFeed * Flavorwire "A formidably gifted
writer who can do pretty much anything she pleases." - The New York
Times Book Review Colloquial and incantatory, the poems in Patricia
Lockwood's second collection address the most urgent questions of
our time, like: Is America going down on Canada? What happens when
Niagara Falls gets drunk at a wedding? Is it legal to marry a
stuffed owl exhibit? Why isn't anyone named Gary anymore? Did the
Hatfield and McCoy babies ever fall in love? The steep tilt of
Lockwood's lines sends the reader snowballing downhill,
accumulating pieces of the scenery with every turn. The poems'
subject is the natural world, but their images would never occur in
nature. This book is serious and funny at the same time, like a big
grave with a clown lying in it.
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Josephine (Paperback)
Laurence Avery; Illustrated by Patricia Lockwood Davis
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