Checkout 19

Name: Checkout 19
SKU: 9781529114997
Price: 14 EUR
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‘A book to shake the world anew’ Sebastian Barry

Claire-Louise Bennett

LITERATURE

14 €

Coup de coeur (Literature), by Lochy

The perfect book for lovers of literature. Ideal for those who understand themselves through what they read and, inversely, for those who make sense of what they read through their own lived experience. Bennett plays with this intimate relationship between life and fiction through innovative and fresh prose, inviting us to trace the nonlinear development of an identity shaped by literature. How do the writers we read shape our understanding of ourselves and our experiences? The books our narrator reads are integral to her creative development, inseparable from the events she experiences and how she remembers them. Its hard to define the book, but it is Proustian to its core digressive, reflective, blending memory with fiction, turning towards the artistic processes behind its own creation. Its a prism of literature that refracts the self. Its exciting and existential a testament to Bennets skill as a writer.

A New York Times 10 Best Books of 2022 Selection

'Extraordinary . . . radiant' Sunday Times
'An existential tour-de-force' Eimear McBride
'Elatingly risky' Guardian

'We read in order to come to life.'

With fierce imagination, a woman revisits the moments that shape her life; from crushes on teachers to navigating relationships in a fast-paced world; from overhearing her grandmothers' peculiar stories to nurturing her own personal freedom and a boundless love of literature.

Fusing fantasy with lived experience, Checkout 19 is a vivid and mesmerising journey through the small traumas and triumphs that define us - as readers, as writers, as human beings.

* A 'Books of 2021' pick in the Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Irish Times Culture and New Statesman *

'This is her new book to shake the world anew' Sebastian Barry

'Mesmerising, whip-smart, full of genius . . . It is also very funny' Elaine Feeney

'Her voice is all her own' Anne Enright

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Binding: Paperback

Publication date: 28 Jul 2022

Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 19 mm

ISBN: 9781529114997