
Reader Score
60%
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recommend this book
Critic Reviews
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Screwed-up England and its characters channelled in strange, twisted, funny, cartoon-like innovative fiction that grasps our times better than straight realism.
Tim Etchells is an artist and writer based in Sheffield and London. His work shifts between performance, visual art and fiction. As well as being Professor of Performance and Writing at Lancaster University, he works in a wide variety of contexts, notably as the leader of the ground-breaking, world-renowned Sheffield performance group Forced Entertainment, whose prizes include the 2016 International Ibsen Award. He has developed a unique voice in writing fiction and exhibited work and presented performances in significant institutions and festivals all over the world, including at Glastonbury Festival, the Tate Modern and as the 2014 Artist of the City of Lisbon.
'This book is dangerous. This book tells it like it was & is.'
'A very strong tincture of the present moment, which of course it never mentions. No book is even remotely like it.'
'Etchells has made a tough, eloquent, emotional new language of ideas about class, human fragility, lust, embarrassment and a good night out. He is a legend.'
'It insists on being read, at once, and probably out loud.'