The Life of the Mind by Christine Smallwood
A New York Times, Times Magazine, LitHub and White Review Best Book of 2021.“A jewel of a debut.. abundantly satisfying.”
* Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror *“Brilliant and pleasurable, funny and dark, cerebral and visceral—a must-read for the bleeding human survivors of the modern age.”
* Melissa Broder, author of Milk Fed *"Crisp and assured."
* London Review of Books *“Brilliant... Dorothy’s sharp, witty narration makes this book something special. The result is like the glorious love child of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sally Rooney.”
* Publishers' Weekly *“Hilarious, recognizable, and helplessly wise..”
* Rivka Galchen *“That rare thing: an intellectual page-turner that commands one’s attention completely from the first sentence to the final line. In painfully funny prose, Smallwood’s X-ray gaze seeks out the rich seams of anxiety and loneliness running just below the surface of our culture’s exhausting performative enthusiasm, taking in everything from the complex social politics of karaoke to the head-spinning paradoxes of an academic conference in Las Vegas… Essential reading for our troubling times.”
* Andrew Martin *“A wonderful novel about a life (and a mind) that refuses to behave novelistically. The book is smart, sharp, often very funny, and, in its commitment to truth over beauty, absolutely fearless.”
* Christopher Beha *| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781787704268 |
| ISBN 10 | 1787704262 |
| Title | The Life of the Mind |
| Author | Christine Smallwood |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Europa Editions (UK) Ltd |
| Year published | 2022-08-04 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |