Author of the Month: Nell Zink
Selected by the Bookshop
Our last Author of the Month in 2023 is Nell Zink
‘Nell Zink has a great backstory’, writes Christopher Tayler in the London Review of Books. ‘She’s the woman who came out of nowhere – or, on closer inspection, out of a busy background of Virginia boarding schools, bricklaying, postpunk fanzine production and hand-to-mouth endeavours in Israel and Germany – to publish, in her early fifties, a pair of novels that made her the talk of Brooklyn.’ Since then, she’s written three further novels, cementing her reputation as one of our funniest, sharpest satirists of contemporary life. Doxology, a family saga about a punk band in New York, is a great place to start.
From the publisher:
Two generations of an American family come of age - one before 9/11, one after - in this moving and original novel from the "intellectually restless, uniquely funny" (New York Times Book Review) mind of Nell Zink…
From the publisher:
The new novel from one of America’s most original voices—a wild, blackly funny story of female emancipation and the journey to one’s own utopia.Bran’s Southern California upbringing is anything but traditional. After…
From the publisher:
Startlingly radical, dazzlingly witty, unlike anything that has come before - this is the most exciting novel you will read this year.…
From the publisher:
'Heady and rambunctious ... Wake up, this book says: in its plot lines, in its humour, in its philosophical underpinnings and political agenda. I'll pay it the highest compliment it knows - this book is a wild thing.' New York Times Book…
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