London and the South-East
London and the South-East
paperback
Published:
2 April, 2009
Popular Books by David Szalay
View All Books by David Szalay
Description
WINNER OF THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE
'Compulsively readable' Independent on Sunday
A discontented ad salesman finds his life changed, in the wryly funny and addictive novel from Booker-shortlisted David Szalay
Paul Rainey, an ad salesman, perceives dimly through a fog of psychoactive substances his dissatisfaction with his life - professional, sexual, weekends, the lot. He only wishes there was something he could do about it.
And 'something' seems to fall into his lap when a meeting with an old friend and fellow salesman, Eddy Jaw, leads to the offer of a new job. But when this offer turns out to be as misleading as Paul's sales patter, his life and that of his family are transformed in ways very much more peculiar than he ever thought possible.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099515890 |
| ISBN10 | 009951589X |
| Number Of Pages | 352 |
| Item Weight | 244 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 23 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
One of the great English novels of recent years, a work of sublime literary realism, and a blackly comic meditation on the sins and sorrows of modernity
Brilliant... funny, painful, graphic... Compulsively readable * Independent on Sunday *
A wonderfully dark debut... A strikingly poetic glimpse into the soul of the faceless, big creatures into whose armpits one has so often been squashed on the central line * The Times *
This is David Szalay's first novel, and startlingly good... A terrific debut... A tense and compelling read * Independent *
Superb... Riveting * Financial Times *
One of the great English novels of recent years, a work of sublime literary realism, and a blackly comic meditation on the sins and sorrows of modernity
Brilliant... funny, painful, graphic... Compulsively readable * Independent on Sunday *
A wonderfully dark debut... A strikingly poetic glimpse into the soul of the faceless, big creatures into whose armpits one has so often been squashed on the central line * The Times *
This is David Szalay's first novel, and startlingly good... A terrific debut... A tense and compelling read * Independent *
Superb... Riveting * Financial Times *
GoodReads Reviews
Author's Bio
David Szalay is the author of six works of fiction, including London and the South-East, for which he was awarded the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber Memorial prizes, All That Man Is, for which he was awarded the Gordon Burn Prize and Plimpton Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Turbulence, which won the Edge Hill Prize. Born in Canada, he grew up in London, and now lives in Vienna. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages.