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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.
Reads like a collaboration between Kundera and Murakami to adapt SJ Watson's Before I Go To Sleep or Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl into post-modernist fiction Guardian Lurid & Cute is a simple story of mayhem and ennui, almost a caper, but told with such satisfying ironies and verbal dexterity that everything is technicolor again. So alive, so inventive, so very good. -- Joshua Ferris, author of 'To Rise Again at a Decent Hour' It's a seductive slice of suburban noir -- Sebastian Shakespeare Tatler Lurid & Cute is strong enough to make admirers out of detractors -- Malcolm Forbes National Lurid & Cute, which begins as...an exercise in pure style, also reveals itself as a very earnest critique of the morals of a pampered generation -- Adam Kirsch Atlantic
