Revisit the haunting debut short story collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Everything Under.'Full of unabashedly, refreshingly angry women... In a year that made me furious, Daisy Johnson's Fen was a howl I didn't know I needed' Celeste NgThe Fen is a liminal land. Real people live their lives here. They wrestle with sex and desire, with everyday routine. But the wild is always close at hand, ready to erupt.This is a place where animals and people commingle and fuse, where curious metamorphoses take place, where myth and dark magic still linger. So here a teenager may starve herself into the shape of an eel. A house might fall in love with a girl. A woman might give birth to a, well, what? 'Instant classic...a bold, take-no-prisoners collection situated somewhere between Angela Carter and Deborah Levy' Jeff VanderMeer
ISBN: | 9781784702106 |
Publisher: | Random House |
Imprint: | Vintage |
Published date: | 08 Jun 2017 |
DEWEY: | 823.92 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Sales rank: | 10773 |
Number of pages: | 191 |
Weight: | 170g |
Height: | 197mm |
Width: | 130mm |
Spine width: | 14mm |