Electricity
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$19.98
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2014
Summary
Lily’s epilepsy means she’s used to seeing the world in terms of angles - you look at every surface, you weigh up every corner, and you think of your head slamming into it - but what would she be like without her sharp edges?
Prickly, spiky, up-front honest and down-to-earth practical, Lily is thirty, and life’s not easy but she gets by. Needing no-one and asking for nothing, it’s just her and her epilepsy: her constant companion.
But then Lily’s long-estranged mother dies, an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781447274940 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1447274946 |
| Author: | Ray Robinson |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Edition: | New ed |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2014 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Ray Robinson’s Electricity is a thorny, uncompromising novel, with attitude. It is also – thanks to Lily O’Connor, its sharp-edged, hard-living, tough-talking narrator – mesmerising, uplifting and unexpectedly tender – Jim Crace, Booker-shortlisted author of HARVEST
An energetic debut, bristling with talent … It’s black, savage, funny and rather uncomfortably haunting * The Times *
An eviscerating debut novel … Its fast, furious plot, kaleidoscopic imagery, blunt observations and a wry, ingenuous, hugely compassionate heroine make Electricity a breathtaking assault on the senses * Guardian *
This visceral debut novel is narrated by Lily O’Connor, a darkly defiant 30-year-old epileptic whose life is punctuated by violent seizures. Robinson chronicles her desperate pursuit of her brother, Mickey, from Blackpool to London with a visual language so vivid you’re steamrollered right into their subterranean world. * Vogue *
Ray Robinson
When Electricity was first published in 2006 it was shortlisted for both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Authors’ Club First Novel Award. It is now a film from Stone City Films and stars Agyness Deyn as Lily. Robinson’s other novels are The Man Without (2008), Forgetting Zoe (2010), and Jawbone Lake (2014). Robinson is a post-graduate of Lancaster University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in Creative Writing in 2006, and is a Literary Mentor and Reader for The Literary Consultancy.
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