LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013
An unsettling exploration of manipulation and power between a
middle-aged man and eleven year-old girl.
Bonnie Nadzam was born in Cleveland, went to school in Chicago and has moved continually westward since then. She studied English literature and environmental studies at Carleton College and earned an MA and PhD from the University of Southern California. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in a wide range of literary publications and she taught creative writing at Colorado College. She is married to her childhood sweetheart and lives with him in the Rocky Mountains.
A devastatingly convincing portrait of abuse . . . Add in
pitch-perfect dialogue and this utterly assured, high stakes,
high-wire act of a novel is proof that Nadzam is a very special
talent indeed.
*Daily Mail*
This daring, disturbing first novel imagines the friendship of a
child and an older man … [and] flirts with the possibility that
such relationships might not always have dire consequences … This
is a fiction of striking distinction.
*Independent*
Nadzam reveals Lamb: a damaged, destructive man … a haunting
creation, to be both pitied and despised.
*Sunday Telegraph*
This is a brilliantly unsettling read that casts a dark,
manipulative spell – particularly against the gorgeously described
backdrop of the American West.
*Marie Claire*
Bonnie Nadzam manages to write gorgeous prose about people and
skies and mountains while still creating tension and suspense on
the level of a thriller ... Lamb is a remarkable debut by a writer
to watch. I will be thinking about these characters for a long
time.
*Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake*
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