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Everything Under
Everything Under
hardback | English
Published:
12 July, 2018
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781910702345 |
| ISBN10 | 191070234X |
| Number Of Pages | 272 |
| Item Weight | 340 g |
| Product Dimensions | 136 x 32 x 220 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Jonathan Cape |
| Format | hardback |
| Edition | 01 |
Media Reviews
A stunning debut novel. Blending a deep understanding of character and storytelling examination... the result reminds me of Iris Murdoch... Johnson's affinity for the natural world is extraordinary. -- Jeff VanderMeer * Guardian *
Daisy Johnson is a new goddamn swaggering monster of fiction. * Lauren Groff *
A triumph: a novel that feels inexorable, messy and profound all at once. -- Anna Leszkiewicz * New Statesman *
Imaginative and innovative... there is a spellbinding tension. As the threads move towards a common end, you're a child who wants to know the magic. -- Jonathan McAloon * Irish Times *
[Daisy Johnson's] first novel confirms not only her talent, but her ambition... Johnson's dense, begrimed retelling [of the Oedipus myth] hums with an electricity pylon-charge of danger, and her sentences repeatedly flare with startling, visceral coinages. * Daily Mail *
Infused with dark fairy tale, Oedipal tragedy and Freudian desire, this is a brambly, atmospheric and immersive tale... Johnson's [Everything Under] shines in its use of language. -- Ellen Wiles * Times Literary Supplement *
A weird and wonderful revisioning of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex... Johnson writes with a mesmerising blend of the naturalistic and the surreal, spinning physical descriptions of muscular beauty... This is a novel that drives to its tragic outcome with the twisting but unstoppable logic of a river to the sea. -- Rebecca Abrams * Financial Times *
A hybrid of Alexander Trocchi's 1954 murder-on-a-canal novel Young Adam and Angela Carter at her most witchy and far-out, Everything Under is creative writing of distinction. -- Ian Thomson * Evening Standard *
A deeply involving, unsettling novel that pulls the reader into a uniquely eerie yet recognisable world. * Sunday Times *
Johnson excels at making psychic phenomena feel visceral. * Observer *
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Author's Bio
Daisy Johnson was born in 1990. Her debut short story collection, Fen, was published in 2016. She is the winner of the Harper's Bazaar Short Story Prize, the A.M. Heath Prize and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. She currently lives in Oxford by the river.