Sugar Street by Jonathan Dee
Pulitzer Prize finalist and celebrated author of seven novels Jonathan Dee delivers a daring, tense, ticking time bomb of a novel about an anonymous white man on the run from his own identity.
I don't know when I've been as jolted and delighted by the ending of a novel as I recently was by the ending of Sugar Street, a deft punch of a novel by Jonathan Dee, that had the phrase "an American Dostoyevsky" running around in my head Dee creates a true page-turner out of simple materials and the result is a troubling and stimulating look at real American life - at the fix that materialism plus the information state has got us into. It's also very funny -- George Sanders
Dee's subtle skill lies in how seductive he makes all this strenuous rationalising on the narrator's part . . . Sugar Street's symbolism does just as much to keep you on edge, bringing us queasily close to a self-cancelling antihero who is simultaneously sent up and - you suspect - just a little bit admired * Observer *
Part of the power of Sugar Street lies in its style . . . in the prose you can feel the adrenaline of [the protagonist's] initial flight wearing off , his life shrinking down to a couple of city blocks . It's brilliantly done * Guardian *
This one will keep you guessing . . . An original and fascinating concept that'll keep you hooked and turning the pages * The Sunday Post *
Pacy and disturbing * Mail on Sunday *
[A] compelling, original novel * Independent *
The politics of the story become explicit, terrifyingly so, in its final pages... Sugar Street ends by packing a punch that the reader won't see coming * Prisma *
Possessing the pace and plot surprises of a thriller, Dee's novel also manages to be a searing portrait of contemporary America * Choice *
Dee's style is clean, raw, terse [and] perfectly paced. The voice conveys a yearning for something better against a bone-deep cynicism... You sure won't see the ending coming * Financial Times *
A propulsive thriller * Observer *
Sugar Street is expertly done, with a good balance of provocative thinking and surprising developments * The Times *
This is an elegant, spare and thoroughly engaging novel, with a narrator who goes from potential bad guy to potential victim... and a genuinely affecting questioning of whether it's possible to do the "right thing" without incurring judgment -- Claire Looby * Irish Times *
Dee's subtle skill lies in how seductive he makes all this strenuous rationalising on the narrator's part . . . Sugar Street's symbolism does just as much to keep you on edge, bringing us queasily close to a self-cancelling antihero who is simultaneously sent up and - you suspect - just a little bit admired * Observer *
Part of the power of Sugar Street lies in its style . . . in the prose you can feel the adrenaline of [the protagonist's] initial flight wearing off , his life shrinking down to a couple of city blocks . It's brilliantly done * Guardian *
This one will keep you guessing . . . An original and fascinating concept that'll keep you hooked and turning the pages * The Sunday Post *
Pacy and disturbing * Mail on Sunday *
[A] compelling, original novel * Independent *
The politics of the story become explicit, terrifyingly so, in its final pages... Sugar Street ends by packing a punch that the reader won't see coming * Prisma *
Possessing the pace and plot surprises of a thriller, Dee's novel also manages to be a searing portrait of contemporary America * Choice *
Dee's style is clean, raw, terse [and] perfectly paced. The voice conveys a yearning for something better against a bone-deep cynicism... You sure won't see the ending coming * Financial Times *
A propulsive thriller * Observer *
Sugar Street is expertly done, with a good balance of provocative thinking and surprising developments * The Times *
This is an elegant, spare and thoroughly engaging novel, with a narrator who goes from potential bad guy to potential victim... and a genuinely affecting questioning of whether it's possible to do the "right thing" without incurring judgment -- Claire Looby * Irish Times *
Jonathan Dee is the author of seven novels, including The Locals, A Thousand Pardons, and The Privileges, which was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, he teaches in the graduate writing program at Syracuse University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781472151964 |
| ISBN 10 | 1472151968 |
| Title | Sugar Street |
| Author | Jonathan Dee |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2023-01-05 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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