'This astonishing debut novel from young New Zealander Eleanor Catton is a cause for surprise and celebration: smart, playful and self-possessed, it has the glitter and mystery of the true literary original' Guardian
Eleanor Catton was born in 1985 in Canada and raised in New
Zealand, where she has won several prizes for this, her first
novel, including the 2009 Montana Best First Book Award and the
2008 Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship to the Iowa Writers' workshop.
The book is sensational
*Bill Nighy*
As debuts go, this one is astral - as well as teasing, intelligent
and knowing ... Catton anatomizes brilliantly the psychology of
youth, its sexual mores, it's posing pretentiousness, its worries,
its bravado ... So much accomplishment carried so lightly
*Scotsman*
It represents a starburst of talent and the arrival of an author
wholly different from anyone else writing today
*Sunday Times*
A supremely confident piece of writing ... the clarity of its
thought and language make it a definite contender for debut of the
year
*Independent*
Brilliant ... What Catton does so strikingly, and in such honeyed
prose, is to capture the essence of adolescents ... Catton has
formidable talent
*Daily Mail*
Time-frames overlap and collide in this ingenious ontological
kaleidoscope of a debut, but the experimentalism - which demands
that the reader keep all her wits about her - is tempered by a real
knack for narrative and a cast of painfully familiar teenage
characters who are all desperate to be as confident, cool,
charismatic and funny as possible. These are qualities that the
extraordinary Eleanor Catton has in spades
*The Times*
2009's most exciting new voice
*Guardian Review*
This astonishing debut novel from young New Zealander Eleanor
Catton is a cause for surprise and celebration: smart, playful and
self-possessed, it has the glitter and mystery of the true literary
original
*Guardian*
The book is sensational -- Bill Nighy
As debuts go, this one is astral - as well as teasing, intelligent
and knowing ... Catton anatomizes brilliantly the psychology of
youth, its sexual mores, it's posing pretentiousness, its worries,
its bravado ... So much accomplishment carried so lightly *
Scotsman *
It represents a starburst of talent and the arrival of an author
wholly different from anyone else writing today * Sunday Times
*
A supremely confident piece of writing ... the clarity of its
thought and language make it a definite contender for debut of the
year * Independent *
Brilliant ... What Catton does so strikingly, and in such honeyed
prose, is to capture the essence of adolescents ... Catton has
formidable talent * Daily Mail *
Time-frames overlap and collide in this ingenious ontological
kaleidoscope of a debut, but the experimentalism - which demands
that the reader keep all her wits about her - is tempered by a real
knack for narrative and a cast of painfully familiar teenage
characters who are all desperate to be as confident, cool,
charismatic and funny as possible. These are qualities that the
extraordinary Eleanor Catton has in spades * The Times *
2009's most exciting new voice * Guardian Review *
This astonishing debut novel from young New Zealander Eleanor
Catton is a cause for surprise and celebration: smart, playful and
self-possessed, it has the glitter and mystery of the true literary
original * Guardian *
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