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Politics

Adam Thirlwell

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English
Vintage
01 September 2004
Adam Thirlwell's sharp, funny, entirely original and explosive debut.

'In case you had not noticed,' writes Adam Thirlwell in his first novel, Politics, 'in this book I am not interested in anything so small as the history of the USSR. I am not writing anything so limited.'

In this epic miniature, therefore, Politics tells the story of three kids in their twenties falling in love with each in London. And, simultaneously, it tells other, smaller stories- of Stalin on the phone, Mao in the bathroom, Osip Mandelstam in another bathroom, Adolf Hitler on all fours, and Milan Kundera in an argument.

Politics is not (quite) about politics.
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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   204g
ISBN:   9780099459026
ISBN 10:   0099459027
Pages:   288
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Adam Thirlwell was born in London in 1978. The author of three previous novels, his work has been translated into thirty languages. His essays appear in the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books, and he is an advisory editor of the Paris Review. His awards include a Somerset Maugham Award and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 2018 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He has twice been selected by Granta as one of their Best of Young British Novelists.

Reviews for Politics

Extremely accomplished...very sophisticated -- A S Byatt * Guardian * One of the funniest, most stylish and utterly original debuts in years * The Times * This is a clever book. Fantastically clever...funny and strangely insightful... A genuinely original book * Daily Mail * Dazzling...clever, funny and original -- India Knight * Observer * Allusive, barbed, cocky, flamboyant, reckless, obscene and very funny * Time Out *


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