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The Book of Goose Yiyun Li

The Book of Goose By Yiyun Li

The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li


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The Book of Goose Summary

The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li

'A dazzling, subtle, skilful knockout - I loved it' Charlotte Mendelson 'One of the great writers of our time' Tash Aw 'Wonderfully strange and alive' Jon McGregor

A propulsive, seductive new novel about friendship, exploitation and intimacy from the prize-winning author of Where Reasons End

Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnes, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised - the place that Fabienne helped Agnes escape ten years ago. Now, Agnes is free to tell her story.

As children in a backwater town, they'd built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves - until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnes on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune, and terrible loss.

A dark, ravishing tale winding from the rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school, to the quiet Pennsylvania home where Agnes can live without her past. The Book of Goose is a story of intimacy and obsession, friendship and rivalry perfect for fans of Elena Ferrante, Ottessa Moshfegh and Kamila Shamsie.

The Book of Goose Reviews

'Meet Agnes and Fabienne... Come for the writerly scheming, stay for the exquisitely calibrated examination of how our most tender and important bonds involve the manipulation of power and devotion' LA Times

'Bringing to mind Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend, by way of Anita Brookner's quietly dramatic prose, makes for a powerful Cinderella fable with memorable characters. It's an accomplished new turn for Li' Publishers Weekly

'A dazzling, subtle, skilful knockout - I loved it' Charlotte Mendelson, author of The Exhibitionist

'Yiyun Li perceives human behaviour with a rinsing clarity. An ambitious and profound book' Clare Pollard, author of Fierce Bad Rabbits

'In a story about love and creation, Yiyun Li slips in a satire of the business of marketing authors... deft and delicious' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Starling Days

'Yiyun Li has, again, done something new and gone somewhere wonderfully strange and alive. The Book of Goose is beautiful, sad, funny and claustrophobic' Jon McGregor, author of Lean Fall Stand

'A haunting novel about loss, friendship and storytelling, Book of Goose proves, again, that few writers match Yiyun Li's ability to explore human desire and ambition. This new work broadens the canvas of one of the great writers of our time' Tash Aw, author of Strangers on a Pier

'Exquisite. . . Stunners: Li's memorable duo, their lives, their losses' Kirkus Reviews

'[A] remarkable novelist ... a beguiling tale of intimacy and obsession from one of our most capacious and generous talents' The Millions

About Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li is the author of six books of fiction and two books of nonfiction, including Where Reasons End, and Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and other places. Her accolades include the Guardian First Book Award, the Sunday Times Short Story Award, a Windham-Campbell prize, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship, the PEN/Jean Stein Award and the 2022 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. She teaches at Princeton University, and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Additional information

NGR9780008531812
9780008531812
0008531811
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
New
Hardback
HarperCollins Publishers
2022-09-29
368
N/A
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