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Brat: A Novel by Gabriel Smith (Early Release, Hardcover, Brand New)
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- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- ISBN
- 0593656873
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Original Language
- English
- Edition
- First Edition
- Book Title
- Brat : a Novel
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Humorous / Black Humor, Literary, Gothic
- Item Width
- 5.8 in
- Item Weight
- 14.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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"Messy with glitched realities and body horror, Brat breathes the same thrillingly claustrophobic air as Inland Empire and Ubik . It's a skin-shedding ouroboros of grief and laughter, and the most brain-melting British debut I've read in ages." --Ed Park, author of Same Bed Different Dreams From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protagonist grappling with grief, inheritance, and the ghosts of his past We meet our ill-tempered protagonist--the story's titular "brat"--at a low moment, but not yet at rock bottom. The Gabriel of the novel is mourning the death of his father as well as a recent breakup and struggling to finish writing his second book. Alone and aimless, he agrees to move back into his parents' house to clear it out for sale. Here, the clichés end. Gabriel has trouble delivering on his promises: as the moldy, overgrown house deteriorates around him, so does his own health, and large sheets of his skin begin to peel from his body at a terrifying rate. In fragments and figments, Gabriel takes us on a surreal journey into the mysteries of the family home, where he finds unfinished manuscripts written by his parents that seem to mutate every time he picks them up and a bizarre home video that hints at long-buried secrets. Strange people and figures emerge--perhaps directly from the novel's embedded fictions--and despite his compromised state (and his more successful brother's growing frustration) Gabriel is determined to try to make sense of these hauntings. Part ghost story, part grief story, flirting with the autofictional mode while sitting squarely in the tradition of the gothic, Brat crackles with deadpan humor and delightfully taut prose. Gabriel Smith's arrival heralds the next generation of fiction writers--formally inventive, influenced by the rhythms of the internet, and infused with a particularly Gen Z sense of alienation. Irreverent and boundary-pushing, but not for its own sake, the novel that follows is muscular yet lyrical, riddled with paradox, and told with a truly rare and compelling clarity of voice. Brat is a serious debut that refuses to take itself too seriously.
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0593656873
ISBN-13
9780593656877
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21062752470
Product Key Features
Book Title
Brat : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Humorous / Black Humor, Literary, Gothic
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Item Weight
14.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Pr6119.M5748b73 2024
Reviews
"Messy with glitched realities and body horror, Brat breathes the same thrillingly claustrophobic air as Inland Empire and Ubik . It's a skin-shedding ouroboros of grief and laughter, and the most brain-melting British debut I've read in ages." -- Ed Park, author of Same Bed Different Dreams "Smith's picaresque first novel is told from the perspective of Gabriel, a writer struggling with numerous issues . . . a deeply gothic work that never quite settles the reader in a certain world as Gabriel's foibles, ghostly visions, and uncertainties filter every moment. Written in short, clipped chapters and featuring uproarious dialogue (especially with Gabriel's brother), this is a darkly comic and brilliantly unusual debut." -- Booklist "[Smith's] dialogue shines . . . Readers who appreciate the morbidly funny and the just plain morbid will find a lot to love in these pages. A weird and darkly funny novel from a writer to watch." --Kirkus "Gabriel Smith's prose is like if Joan Didion and Shirley Jackson took Xanax and used the internet. Brat is a sharp, eerie, confident debut about grief, memory, art, and so much more. Smith is a major new talent." -- Jordan Castro, author of The Novelist "Gabriel Smith's jauntily creepy and hilarious tale of a grief-stalked scapegrace's sloughing-off and regeneration of selves in the filial murk of a moldering homestead is a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for a new, quaking generation. Brat will unnerve and seduce you." -- Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted "Gabriel Smith has written a truly unique and surprising book. He is the rarest thing: a distinctive stylist on the line and structure level. Brat is so strange and so funny. I laughed a lot while reading." -- Rachel Connolly, author of Lazy City, "[Sante's] writing remains as perceptive, elegant, and striking as ever, and furthermore it is fearlessly honest--a quality that often seems almost as rare as Sante-style bohemians . . . There has always been much truth in her work, flourishing like those renegade artists in the squalor of 1970s New York. And now there is even more." -- Slate "Messy with glitched realities and body horror, Brat breathes the same thrillingly claustrophobic air as Inland Empire and Ubik . It's a skin-shedding ouroboros of grief and laughter, and the most brain-melting British debut I've read in ages." -- Ed Park, author of Same Bed Different Dreams "Gabriel Smith's prose is like if Joan Didion and Shirley Jackson took Xanax and used the internet. Brat is a sharp, eerie, confident debut about grief, memory, art, and so much more. Smith is a major new talent." -- Jordan Castro, author of The Novelist "Gabriel Smith's jauntily creepy and hilarious tale of a grief-stalked scapegrace's sloughing-off and regeneration of selves in the filial murk of a moldering homestead is a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for a new, quaking generation. Brat will unnerve and seduce you." -- Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted, "Messy with glitched realities and body horror, Brat breathes the same thrillingly claustrophobic air as Inland Empire and Ubik . It's a skin-shedding ouroboros of grief and laughter, and the most brain-melting British debut I've read in ages." -- Ed Park, author of Same Bed Different Dreams "Gabriel Smith's prose is like if Joan Didion and Shirley Jackson took Xanax and used the internet. Brat is a sharp, eerie, confident debut about grief, memory, art, and so much more. Smith is a major new talent." -- Jordan Castro, author of The Novelist "Gabriel Smith's jauntily creepy and hilarious tale of a grief-stalked scapegrace's sloughing-off and regeneration of selves in the filial murk of a moldering homestead is a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for a new, quaking generation. Brat will unnerve and seduce you." -- Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted
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