The Echo Chamber

John Boyne

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English

Doubleday
03 August 2021

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

From the author of The Heart's Invisible Furies and powered with the Boyne's characteristic humour and razor-sharp observation, The Echo Chamber is a satiric helter skelter, a dizzying downward spiral of action and consequence, poised somewhere between farce, absurdity and oblivion.

What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept.

The Cleverley family live a gilded life, little realising how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. George, the patriarch, is a stalwart of television interviewing, a 'national treasure' (his words), his wife Beverley, a celebrated novelist (although not as celebrated as she would like), and their children, Nelson, Elizabeth, Achilles, various degrees of catastrophe waiting to happen.

Together they will go on a journey of discovery through the Hogarthian jungle of the modern living where past presumptions count for nothing and carefully curated reputations can be destroyed in an instant. Along the way they will learn how volatile, how outraged, how unforgiving the world can be when you step from the proscribed path.

To err is maybe to be human but to really foul things up you only need a phone.

By: John Boyne
Imprint: Doubleday
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 31mm
Weight: 519g
ISBN: 9780857526229
ISBN 10: 0857526227
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 03 August 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Boyne was born in Ireland in 1971. He is the author of twelve novels for adults, six for young readers and a collection of short stories. Perhaps best known for his 2006 multi-award-winning and bestselling book The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, John's other novels, notably A History of Loneliness, The Heart's Invisible Furies, and A Ladder to the Sky have been widely praised and are international bestsellers. He lives in Dublin.

Reviews for The Echo Chamber

The funniest book I've read in ages. Savage but compelling * Ian Rankin * A fearless romp with big laughs along the way * Graham Norton * A comedy of manners and lack of manners ... good fun and cheeky as hell * Ryan Tubridy * A blisteringly funny and razor sharp satire about social media, celebrity and political correctness. I laughed SO much * Hannah Beckerman * Sharp, funny, and beautifully written, but it's also a brilliant reflection on the landscape we now live in * Sunday Times bestselling author, Joanna Cannon *