Offseason

Name: Offseason
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ISBN: 9781399637015

'Phenomenal' MADELINE CASH, author of LOST LAMBS

Avigayl Sharp

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
05 May 2026

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

A blisteringly funny and transcendently deranged debut novel for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh, Patricia Lockwood and George Saunders

'Obscenely good and very funny' CATHERINE LACEY

'A startling fever dream of a novel' LUCY ROSE

'So smart, weird and eerie . . .

'I recommend everyone buy it when it comes out' MADELINE CASH

In Offseason, our fiercely observant but self-deluded narrator finds herself teaching at an all-girls boarding school in a remote coastal town.

In between manic lectures that veer from Charles Dickens's Bleak House to the childhood maltreatment of her beloved Iosif Stalin and the generational legacy of the Holocaust, she implicates everyone she meets in her quest to pin down where exactly her own life went wrong.

Blisteringly funny and transcendently deranged, Offseason marks the arrival of a wild new literary talent.

'Indescribably brilliant . . . You've never read anything like it' ELIZABETH McCRACKEN

'A bonkers and beautifully written novel . . . Absorbing and original' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS

'Yes, Offseason is hilarious, eccentric and gleefully mean-spirited, but just when you think you know what Sharp is doing, she will shatter your heart. I haven't read something so incisive, so slyly tender in years' LISA McINERNEY

'A narrator who makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar' MICHAEL CHABON

By: Avigayl Sharp
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 134mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 300g
ISBN: 9781399637015
ISBN 10: 1399637010
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 05 May 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Avigayl Sharp's fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta and McSweeney's, and has received support from Yaddo, the Granum Foundation and the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the 2023 DISQUIET Literary Prize and a 2023-2024 writing fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Offseason is her debut novel. She is currently based in Germany.

Reviews for Offseason: 'Phenomenal' MADELINE CASH, author of LOST LAMBS

Avigayl Sharp is, quite simply, a mind-bogglingly brilliant writer, profound and hilarious, exciting and thought-provoking, unafraid and original: you've never read anyone like her -- Elizabeth McCracken