Goodlord: An Email: Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Poetry 2024 - Couverture souple

Frears, Ella

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1472159616 ISBN 13 : 9781472159618

Editeur : Corsair, 2025

Synopsis

Ella Frears is an artist and poet whose debut collection Shine, Darling was shortlisted for the T S Eliot and Forward Prizes. Goodlord is her first longform fiction - a fierce, dark, funny and addictively readable novel told via one long email to an estate agent.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ella Frears is a writer and poet based in London. Her debut collection Shine, Darling was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. She has held residencies and fellowships for the Tate Gallery, the National Trust, Royal Holloway University physics department, John Hansard Gallery, the Dartington Trust, 16 motorway service stations, the number 17 bus in Southampton, and Exeter University's environmental history department. Goodlord, is shortlisted for The Forward Prize and a Sky Arts Award for Breakthrough Artist of the Year. Ella is a current Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art and hosts Tears for Frears on Soho Radio.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

SKY ARTS AWARD NOMINEE for BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2024

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE 2024

'It's Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground reimaged for the renting generation' Emily Dinsdale, DAZED

'ALL THE HOT WOMEN I KNOW HAVE ELLA FREARS ON THEIR BEDSIDE TABLES' Sheena Patel

'A dazzling treat of a book, genuinely inventive, spiky and funny' Holly Williams, Observer

'As compelling as any thriller' Graeme Richardson, Sunday Times

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Goodlord is a fierce, dark, funny and addictively readable novel told via one long email to an estate agent.

Asked by letting agent, Ava, to make an account with the ominous sounding property technology 'Goodlord', our narrator launches into a breathless and rage fuelled reply that swings wildly between anecdotes of chaotic house-shares, grubby university halls, the claustrophobic school days that haunt her still, her various underpaid exploitative jobs at pubs and restaurants, relationships and sexual encounters both troubling and ecstatic, and an artists' residency that offers her the space she craves but demands a complicated transaction in return.

Written in sharp, unflinching prose, Goodlord exposes the grinding inequalities of modern life. It is a blistering exploration of what it means to live in a world where everything, including your dignity, comes with a price tag.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Corsair
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1472159616
• ISBN 13: 9781472159618
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Corsair Memory, BV.; https://help.corsair.com; ; Wormerweg 8; Almere; Flevoland; Pays-Bas