Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Jonathan Buckley is a writer and editor from the West Midlands, now living in Brighton. In 2015 he won the BBC National Short Story Award for ‘Briar Road’, and he is a regular contributor to the Times Literary SupplementJ. His previous novel, Tell, was the joint winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, a global, biennial award for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English, and was shortlisted for the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize. One Boat is his thirteenth novel, the second to come out with Fitzcarraldo Editions.
<p>‘Exactly why Buckley is not already revered and renowned as a novelist in the great European tradition remains a mystery that will perhaps only be addressed at that final godly hour when all the overlooked authors working in odd and antique modes will receive their just rewards.’<br />
— Ian Sansom, <em>Times Literary Supplement</em></p>
<p>‘Buckley has once again staged an absorbing debate: a philosophical refusal of narrative linearity that is replete with stories; a constellation of episodes that does not tell the whole tale.’<br />
— Richard Robinson, <em>Guardian </em>(praise for <em>Tell</em>)<br />
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<p>‘<em>Tell</em> is one of the best new novels I’ve read in a while.’<br />
— Benjamin Markovits, <em>Telegraph </em>(praise for <em>Tell</em>)<br />
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<p>‘Given that so many of Buckley’s novels are concerned with ideas of memory, selfhood and storytelling, this is hardly new territory for him. Yet the interview conceit in <em>Tell </em>makes it feel fresh, the withholding of interiority requiring an unusual engagement. Don’t take the conversational prose at face value; underneath it lies a whole other set of mysteries besides Curtis’s. Pay attention and you’ll find them.’<br />
— George Cochrane, <em>Financial Times </em>(praise for <em>Tell</em>)<br />
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<p>‘Always well crafted, this novel is engaging in parts and digressive in others, which adds to its realism, capturing how people chatter their way down alleys, rarely hewing to the main road of a tale…. The buildup in <em>Tell </em>is perpetual, a sense that an explanation must be coming. But the author diverges from expectations and converges on reality, where remembering is not the same as understanding. Abruptly, someone may just disappear, and all that remains is the sight of a figure wandering across a bridge — no splash heard, just the fading ripples of “why.”’<br />
— Tom Rachman, <em>New York Times </em>(praise for <em>Tell</em>)</p>
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Jonathan Buckley is a writer and editor from the West Midlands, now living in Brighton. In 2015 he won the BBC National Short Story Award for ‘Briar Road’, and he is a regular contributor to the Times Literary SupplementJ. His previous novel, Tell, was the joint winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, a global, biennial award for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English, and was shortlisted for the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize. One Boat is his thirteenth novel, the second to come out with Fitzcarraldo Editions.