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1529064791

Book A shock; Keith Ridgway

Author: Ridgway, Keith

Year: 2021

Language: English

Type: Book

Class Number: F

Category: Fiction

Publisher: Picador, 2021

Physical or Electronic: Physical

ISBN: 9781529064797

Notes:

This novel features interlocking stories through which a clutch of more or less loosely connected characters appear, disappear and reappear. They are all of them on the fringes of London life, often clinging on - to sanity or solvency or a story - by their fingertips. Ridgway writes about people whose understanding of their own situation is only ever partial and fuzzy, who are consumed by emotions and anxieties and narratives, or the lack thereof, that they cannot master. He focuses on peripheral figures who mean well and to whom things happen, and happen confusingly, and his fictional strategies reflect this focus.

Extent: 288 pages, 21 cm, hbk