Name: Follow Me To Ground von Sue Rainsford
SKU: 9780857526779
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Follow Me To Ground Zusammenfassung

Follow Me To Ground Sue Rainsford

'A tangled, gnarled, wonderfully original, strange, beautiful beast of a book'
DAISY JOHNSON, author of Everything Under

'Beautiful and terrifying' SUNDAY TIMES

'Seethingly assured debut fuses magical realism with critical and feminist theory' GUARDIAN

In house in a wood, Ada and her father live peacefully, tending to their garden and the wildlife in it. They are not human though. Ada was made by her father from the Ground, a unique patch of earth with birthing and healing properties. Though perhaps he didn't get her quite right. They spend their days healing the local human folk - named Cures - who visit them, suspiciously, with their ailments.

When Ada embarks on a relationship with a local Cure named Samson, and is forced to choose between her old life with her father, and a new one with her human lover. Her decision will uproot the town - and the Ground itself - for ever.

A poised and simmering tour-de-force, FOLLOW ME TO GROUND is a sinister vision of desire and freewill, voiced in earthy prose and eviscerating detail by an astoundingly original new writer.

'Equal parts beauty and horror, and unlike anything you will read this year' TEA OBREHT

'Fierce, palpable, hynoptic. A dazzling, troubling dream' COLIN BARRETT

'A writer to watch' METRO

'An astonishing debut heralding the career of an exciting new writer. Strange, lyrical, and arresting, this novel will draw readers into its extraordinary spell.' KIRKUS starred review

LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE 2019

Follow Me To Ground Bewertungen

Seethingly assured ... odd and muscular enough to resist easy interpretation. It can be read on many levels - as a fable about female yearning, or about containment and contagion; as an investigation into toxic relationships or a puzzle over the borders between human and non-human - but it is always singularly and entirely itself * GUARDIAN *
Enthralling . . . Lyrical, dark and detailed, the story twists like a root, bent in one way by desire, in another by fate. * Daily Mail *
Impressive . . . Rainsford is a writer to watch. * Metro *
A tangled, gnarled, wonderfully original, strange, beautiful beast of a book * DAISY JOHNSON *
Rainsford writes beautifully with a lyrical, earthy prose which is evocative and eviscerating yet mesmerising. She gives Ada a unique voice which fills and haunts the narrative. One of the strangest books I've read in a long time, it is utterly compelling and will linger, uninvited, in your consciousness long after you've turned the last page. * Irish Independent *
Equal parts beauty and horror, and unlike anything you will read this year * TEA OBREHT *
Fierce, palpable, hynoptic. A dazzling, troubling dream * COLIN BARRETT *
Rainsford's fairy and folktale sensibility blends seamlessly with horror . . . An astonishing debut heralding the career of an exciting new writer. Strange, lyrical, and arresting, this novel will draw readers into its extraordinary spell. * Kirkus starred review *
A wildly imaginative exploration of desire, fear and what it means to be a person . . . Beautiful and terrifying * Sunday Times *
A quite unclassifiable creation, accomplished if unpinnable. There are many genres dipping their toes into this little plot: magical realism, practical gardening, myths and mythology, folk tales, sex for beginners, alternative medicine - with a soupcon of horror to stupefy the reader. Fairy tale comes closest perhaps, but not as many would know it * Desmond Elliot Prize *

Über Sue Rainsford

SUE RAINSFORD studied History of Art at Trinity College, Dublin, and works as an arts writer. While studying Visual Arts she read Simone de Beauvoir and became fascinated by the poetic, metaphorical language around the female experience. From here emerged the book's hints of magic realism and other unique imagery. Sue Rainsford lives in Dublin. Follow Me to Ground is her first novel and was longlisted for the Desmond Eliot Prize. Her second, Redder Days, is due to be published by Doubleday in 2021.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR009978145

ISBN 13

9780857526779

ISBN 10

0857526774

Titel

Follow Me To Ground Sue Rainsford

Autor

Sue Rainsford

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Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Gebundene Ausgabe

Verlag

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Datum

20190808

Anzahl der Seiten

208

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