The Answers by Catherine Lacey
'This summer's Must-Read novel... a darkly funny, tartly feminist look at the tender state of our bodies and souls' Vogue 'An unsettling, whip-smart meditation on love' Independent 'A clever, gripping read... the dystopian take on dating that everyone will be reading this year' Stylist Mary is out of options. Estranged from her family, plagued by debt and beset by chronic pain, she signs up for 'The Girlfriend Experiment' - a mysterious project masterminded by a famous Hollywood actor, who, frustrated by his romantic and creative failure, hires a collection of women to fulfil the different roles of a relationship. Mary is to play the Emotional Girlfriend, alongside a Maternal Girlfriend, a Mundane Girlfriend, an Anger Girlfriend and, of course, an Intimacy Team. Each woman has her debts and her difficulties, her past loves and her secrets. As Mary and the actor are drawn ever closer together, the nature of the experiment changes, and the Girlfriends find themselves exposed to new perils, foremost among them, love.
This summer's Must-Read novel.. a darkly funny, tartly feminist look at the tender state of our bodies and souls * Vogue *
An exciting and clever follow-up to her acclaimed debut... an unsettling, but whip-smart meditation on love * Independent *
A clever, gripping read... The Answers is a dystopian take on dating that everyone will be reading this year * Stylist *
Strange, intelligent... Lacey explores seismic questions about our relationships to our bodies and our selves in cool, surgically beautiful language... there's no other novel like it out there * Metro *
Sharp and funny... beautifully sad -- Luke Brown * Financial Times *
Asks intelligent and disquieting questions about love in the Tinder era * Sunday Times *
A sly, surreal take on love and relationships... Lacey has a poet's eye, and pays minute attention to every sentence, every word... Intelligent, articulate and sure of her gifts, Lacey is in possession of that rare skill - she knows exactly what to leave out * Irish Times *
A dystopian romance keyed to the metric-obsessed information age... Relentlessly thought-provoking, this is a sophisticated performance... The Answers is a novel that niggles and gnaws - and that is a good thing -- Anthony Cummins * Daily Telegraph *
Lacey's the real thing, and in The Answers she takes full command of her powers... This is a novel of intellect and amplitude that deepens as it moves forward, until you feel prickling awe at how much mental territory unfolds... it's a novel that floods with tangled human feeling * New York Times *
Catherine Lacey is one of the most intelligent and brittle and funny writers of her generation. In The Answers she builds -- out of the raw stuff of bewilderment and absence -- a soaring, heartbreaking work that's just on the right side of being nearly too beautiful to bear -- Lauren Groff
Modern, strange, moving... A sharp premise which will make you shiver about the future -- Jeanne Sutton * Stellar *
[A] slyly subversive and funny take on the modern dating game * Psychologies *
[A] multi-pronged satire which takes shots at misogyny, the "gig economy" and our obsession with data * Sunday Telegraph *
Not your typical romance, The Answers verges on the dystopian * Radio Times *
An ingenious sci-fi scenario that tweaks at the edges of what we believe about that part of us we call a self... Lacey has sly things to say about equality too... Why things should be this way, and whether they can be better, are great questions -- Sarah Ditum * Guardian *
Delight at The Answers' suggestiveness, its lovely clean prose and its lack of answers -- David Annand * Literary Review *
An exciting and clever follow-up to her acclaimed debut... an unsettling, but whip-smart meditation on love * Independent *
A clever, gripping read... The Answers is a dystopian take on dating that everyone will be reading this year * Stylist *
Strange, intelligent... Lacey explores seismic questions about our relationships to our bodies and our selves in cool, surgically beautiful language... there's no other novel like it out there * Metro *
Sharp and funny... beautifully sad -- Luke Brown * Financial Times *
Asks intelligent and disquieting questions about love in the Tinder era * Sunday Times *
A sly, surreal take on love and relationships... Lacey has a poet's eye, and pays minute attention to every sentence, every word... Intelligent, articulate and sure of her gifts, Lacey is in possession of that rare skill - she knows exactly what to leave out * Irish Times *
A dystopian romance keyed to the metric-obsessed information age... Relentlessly thought-provoking, this is a sophisticated performance... The Answers is a novel that niggles and gnaws - and that is a good thing -- Anthony Cummins * Daily Telegraph *
Lacey's the real thing, and in The Answers she takes full command of her powers... This is a novel of intellect and amplitude that deepens as it moves forward, until you feel prickling awe at how much mental territory unfolds... it's a novel that floods with tangled human feeling * New York Times *
Catherine Lacey is one of the most intelligent and brittle and funny writers of her generation. In The Answers she builds -- out of the raw stuff of bewilderment and absence -- a soaring, heartbreaking work that's just on the right side of being nearly too beautiful to bear -- Lauren Groff
Modern, strange, moving... A sharp premise which will make you shiver about the future -- Jeanne Sutton * Stellar *
[A] slyly subversive and funny take on the modern dating game * Psychologies *
[A] multi-pronged satire which takes shots at misogyny, the "gig economy" and our obsession with data * Sunday Telegraph *
Not your typical romance, The Answers verges on the dystopian * Radio Times *
An ingenious sci-fi scenario that tweaks at the edges of what we believe about that part of us we call a self... Lacey has sly things to say about equality too... Why things should be this way, and whether they can be better, are great questions -- Sarah Ditum * Guardian *
Delight at The Answers' suggestiveness, its lovely clean prose and its lack of answers -- David Annand * Literary Review *
Catherine Lacey is the author of THE ANSWERS and NOBODY IS EVER MISSING. She has won a Whiting Award, was a finalist for the NYPL's Young Lions Fiction Award, and was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. Her books have been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch & German. She was born in Mississippi and is based in Chicago. Her first story collection, CERTAIN AMERICAN STATES, will be published by Granta in 2017.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781783782178 |
| ISBN 10 | 178378217X |
| Title | The Answers |
| Author | Catherine Lacey |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2017-06-08 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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