The Water Cure: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018
Autor Sophie Mackintoshen Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 apr 2019
'Bewitching'Guardian
'Calmly devastating'Katherine Angel, author ofUnmastered
You are a girl. Your body is vulnerable. Men will break it if they can - and out there, they absolutely can.
Suffering will prepare you for the worst. The cure is nothing compared to what you've been spared in the sickness. It takes a lot of love to hurt you like this.
Now, come outside. It's time to play the drowning game.
Imagine three sisters raised on an island, taught to fear the outside world and its men. And imagine the men who come to find them: three strangers washed up by the sea, bringing desire and destruction in their wake...
'A work of cool, claustrophobic beauty'Eli Goldstone, author ofStrange Heart Beating
'Eerie, electric, beautiful. It rushes you through to the end on a tide of tension and closely held panic.I loved this book'Daisy Johnson, author ofFen
'Creepy and delightful- it has a pinch of Shirley Jackson, a dash of chlorine, and an essence all of its own' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author ofHarmless Like You
'Otherworldly, brutal and poetic:a feminist fable set by the sea, a female Lord of the Flies. It transported me, savaged me, filled me with hope and fear. It felt likea book I'd been waiting to read for a long time' Emma Jane Unsworth, author ofAnimals
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0241983010
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Sophie Mackintosh won the 2016 White Review Short Story Prize and the 2016 Virago/Stylist Short Story competition, and has been published in Granta magazine and TANK magazine among others. The Water Cure is her first novel.
Recenzii
A feminist dystopian fairy tale,a sexual coming-of-age story and a survival-of-the-fittest tale. Evocative, suspenseful and bleak -in short, everything this age seems to be demanding
[An] eerie, uncanny literary debut...Beautifully written, pared down and hypnotic
Bewitching... [An] ambiguous utopia
In raw, visceral prose, Mackintosh probes at ideas of the threat of male violence, the ways women are told to protect ourselves, love and sisterhood and survival.A hypnotic, stormy book, with one of my favourite endings I've read in a long while
Stunning... A haunting story of abuse, death, and desire...Chilling and topical, a breathtaking debut
Eerily beautiful, this strange, unsettling novel creeps up and grabs hold of you
Darkly gratifying, dreamy, primal, and arresting [as] a fairy tale...The overgrown grounds, with their perimeter of rusty barbed wire and shark-infested waters, resemble Sleeping Beauty's castle
Searing, richly drawn, eerily compelling... As foreboding in what it holds back as in what it reveals
Elemental... [A] utopia portrayed in spectral, organic prose... Mackintosh is a wonderful stylist; the full scope of her imagination, as well as the cohesion of her vision, is evident on every page...A seriously impressive feat
[A] wildly confident debut...Take the strange social ceremonies ofThe Lobsterand the pheromone-rich claustrophobia ofThe Beguiledand you come close to the world Sophie Mackintosh conjures
The Water Cureis eerily still and pure - with saline bite... Mackintosh asks if it is the traumas of our pasts that ultimately pose the greatest threat to our futures
Powerfully unsettling, immensely assured, calmly devastating. It conjures a world both alien and familiar, exploring the physical and psychological cruelties enacted on women, by men, in the name of their protection, and the noble and ignoble uses to which anger can be put in a perverse world.This is a gem of a novel, and I was bowled over by it
Electric [and] beautifully strange... Her novel is an exercise in minimalism
A hypnotic read... Thisextraordinary debutis a feminist, quasi-dystopian read - great for fans ofHot Milk, The GirlsandThe Vegetarian
A work of cool, claustrophobic beauty. Sophie Mackintosh writes devastatingly wellabout the complexities that women face in loving men, and in loving each other
Uneasy, mythic, lawless...The atmospheric landscapes cloak trauma and violence in wisps of uncertainty, where bad feelings coalesce as both presciently felt and strangely unknowable
Otherworldly, brutal and poetic: a feminist fable set by the sea, a utopia gone awry, a female Lord of the Flies. It transported me, savaged me, filled me with hope and fear.It felt like a book I'd been waiting to read for a long time
[A] lyrical debut, original and very atmospheric
Eerie, electric, beautiful.It rushes you through to the end on a tide of tension and closely held panic.I loved this book
Creepy and delightful, a portrayal of post-apocalyptic puberty,intermingling desire and despair. It hasa pinch of Shirley Jackson, a dash of chlorine, and an essence all of its own
Powerful, mythic,seductively sinister... Her alternative world is as carefully imagined as one of Margaret Atwood's...[Sophie Mackintosh] is a writer to be reckoned with
Eerie and unsettling, the novel exerts a hypnotic grip as the tension builds
A superb debut
Descriere
'Eerily beautiful, strange [and] unsettling' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train
'Bewitching' Guardian
'Calmly devastating' Katherine Angel, author of Unmastered
You are a girl. Your body is vulnerable. Men will break it if they can - and out there, they absolutely can.
Suffering will prepare you for the worst. The cure is nothing compared to what you've been spared in the sickness. It takes a lot of love to hurt you like this.
Now, come outside. It's time to play the drowning game.
Imagine three sisters raised on an island, taught to fear the outside world and its men. And imagine the men who come to find them: three strangers washed up by the sea, bringing desire and destruction in their wake...
'A work of cool, claustrophobic beauty' Eli Goldstone, author of Strange Heart Beating
'Eerie, electric, beautiful. It rushes you through to the end on a tide of tension and closely held panic. I loved this book' Daisy Johnson, author of Fen
'Creepy and delightful - it has a pinch of Shirley Jackson, a dash of chlorine, and an essence all of its own' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Harmless Like You
'Otherworldly, brutal and poetic: a feminist fable set by the sea, a female Lord of the Flies. It transported me, savaged me, filled me with hope and fear. It felt likea book I'd been waiting to read for a long time' Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Animals