The Alarming Palsy Of James Orr

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The Alarming Palsy Of James Orr

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Author : Tom Lee
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2017-11-02

The Alarming Palsy Of James Orr written by Tom Lee and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-02 with Fiction categories.

James Orr - husband, father, reliable employee and all round model citizen - wakes one morning to find himself quite transformed. There's no way he can go into the office, and the doctors aren't able to help. Waiting for the affliction to pass, he wanders the idyllic estate where he lives, with its pretty woodland, uniform streets and perfectly manicured lawns. But there are cracks in the veneer. And as his orderly existence begins to unravel, it appears that James himself may not be the man he thought he was. A story that consistently confounds expectations, The Alarming Palsy of James Orr introduces a writer of extraordinary and disturbing talents.

The Bullet

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Author : Tom Lee
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2024-05

The Bullet written by Tom Lee and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Like many people, Tom Lee remembers the presence - somewhere out of sight, on the outskirts of town - of the local psychiatric hospital. It was a place that inspired jokes, rumours and dread, a place where the strange and deranged were kept away. But among those people were, at different times, Tom's own parents. Afterwards, those times were not much spoken about and before long the hospital closed, as part of the nationwide shutting down of psychiatric institutions. For many years, Tom believed that he had dodged the bullet of the mental illness that had marked the lives of his parents. But then, quite out of the blue, he has a crisis of his own and finds himself returning to the past for clues. The Bullet is an attempt to piece together and understand what happened to his parents and what happened to him. It is also a story about how we have tried and spectacularly failed to care for people suffering with mental illness, and about the terrifying fragility and unknowability of the human mind.

Granta 140

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Author : Sigrid Rausing
language : en
Publisher: Granta
Release Date : 2017-08-03

Granta 140 written by Sigrid Rausing and has been published by Granta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-03 with Fiction categories.

In an age when we are finally taking mental health as seriously as physical health, this issue of Granta explores the conscious self: how it perceives, judges and lives in the world. John Barth rocks himself to sleep Rana Dasgupta investigates a live-streamed suicide Joe Dunthorne travels to Cyprus for the Writers' World Cup football tournament Charles Glass talks with an ISIS executioner, photographed by Don McCullin Colin Grant remembers schizophrenia in London's East End in the '80s Penelope Lively recalls how her books have furnished her mind Jack Shenker on life in post-revolutionary Cairo NEW FICTION: Robert Coover, Joanna Hershon and Tom Lee POETRY: Danez Smith, Ocean Vuong and Dara Wier PHOTOGRAPHY: Jason Larkin, Reynaldo Rivera and Francesca Todde, introduced by Chris Kraus and Nuar Alsadir. And war photography by Don McCullin. PLUS Siri Hustvedt, Margo Jefferson, Han Kang, Barry Lopez, Max Porter, Marcel Proust, Mary Ruefle and Andrew Solomon share their states of mind.

The Bullet

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Author : Tom Lee
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2024-05-02

The Bullet written by Tom Lee and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-02 with Self-Help categories.

A powerful and deeply personal exploration of mental health, and an indelible account of the legacy of familial illness and living with a fracturing mind Like many people, Tom Lee remembers the presence - somewhere out of sight, on the outskirts of town - of the local psychiatric hospital. It was a place that inspired jokes, rumours and dread, a place where the strange and deranged were kept away. But among those people were, at different times, Tom's own parents. Afterwards, those times were not much spoken about and before long the hospital closed, as part of the nationwide shutting down of psychiatric institutions. For many years, Tom believed that he had dodged the bullet of the mental illness that had marked the lives of his parents. But then, quite out of the blue, he has a crisis of his own and finds himself returning to the past for clues. The Bullet is an attempt to piece together and understand what happened to his parents and what happened to him. It is also a story about how we have tried and spectacularly failed to care for people suffering with mental illness, and about the terrifying fragility and unknowability of the human mind.

The Earlie King The Kid In Yellow

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Author : Danny Denton
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2018-01-25

The Earlie King The Kid In Yellow written by Danny Denton and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-25 with Fiction categories.

Ireland is flooded, derelict. It never stops raining. The Kid in Yellow has stolen the babba from the Earlie King. Why? Something to do with the King's daughter, and a talking statue, something godawful. And from every wall the King's Eye watches. And yet the city is full of hearts-defiant-sprayed in yellow, the mark of the Kid. It cannot end well. Can it? Follow the Kid, hear the tale. Roll up! Roll up!

Revenant Gun

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Author : Yoon Ha Lee
language : en
Publisher: Solaris
Release Date : 2018-06-12

Revenant Gun written by Yoon Ha Lee and has been published by Solaris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-12 with Fiction categories.

NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR – NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 HUGO AWARD FOR BEST SERIES – WINNER OF THE 2016 LOCUS AWARD – NOMINATED FOR THE HUGO, NEBULA AND ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDS. DEATH AND NEW BEGINNINGS Shuos Jedao is awake. … and nothing is as he remembers. In his mind he’s a teenager, a cadet—a nobody. But he finds himself in the body of an old man, a general controlling the elite forces of the hexarchate, and the most feared—and reviled—man in the galaxy. Jedao carries orders from Hexarch Nirai Kujen to re-conquer the fractured pieces of the hexarchate on his behalf. But he has no memory of ever being a soldier, let alone a general, and the Kel soldiers under his command hate him for a massacre he can’t remember committing. Kujen’s friendliness can’t hide the fact that he’s a tyrant. And what’s worse, Jedao and Kujen are being hunted by an enemy who knows more about Jedao and his crimes than he does himself...

And The Land Lay Still

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Author : James Robertson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2010-08-05

And The Land Lay Still written by James Robertson and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-05 with Fiction categories.

And the Land Lay Still is the sweeping Scottish epic by James Robertson And the Land Lay Still is nothing less than the story of a nation. James Robertson's breathtaking novel is a portrait of modern Scotland as seen through the eyes of natives and immigrants, journalists and politicians, drop-outs and spooks, all trying to make their way through a country in the throes of great and rapid change. It is a moving, sweeping story of family, friendship, struggle and hope - epic in every sense. The winner of the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award 2010, And the Land Lay Still is a masterful insight into Scotland's history in the twentieth century and a moving, beautifully written novel of intertwined stories. 'Toweringly ambitious, virtually flawlessly realized, a masterpiece and, without a doubt, my book of the year' Daily Mail 'A jam-packed, dizzying piece of fiction' Scotland on Sunday 'Gripping, vivid, beautifully realized' The Times 'Engrossing' Daily Telegraph 'Powerful and moving. A brilliant and multifaceted saga of Scottish life in the second half of the twentieth century' Sunday Times 'Brilliant and thoughtful. Eminently readable, subtle and profound' Independent on Sunday 'Bold, discursive and deep, Robertson's sweeping history of life and politics in 20th-century Scotland should not be ignored' Ian Rankin, Observer Books of the Year James Robertson is the author of three previous novels: The Fanatic, Joseph Knight and The Testament of Gideon Mack, which is available in Penguin. Joseph Knight was awarded the two major Scottish literary awards in 2003/4 - the Saltire Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year - and The Testament of Gideon Mack was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, picked by Richard and Judy's Book Club, and shortlisted for the Saltire Book of the Year award.

Greenfly

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Author : Tom Lee
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-02-29

Greenfly written by Tom Lee and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-29 with Fiction categories.

Claustrophobic, intense, troubled, these twelve astonishing stories hold a flare to the strange, elusive corners of our world, past and present; from the United States of the Gold Rush era to the Berlin of today, from Victorian England to the dusty border towns and high cities of modern South America. A young couple's passionate affair unravels as they wait anxiously in their hotel room for news of a recklessly conceived drug deal. An academic inherits a set of diaries detailing her great-grandfather's development of a bizarre new field of science; an endeavour which has shocking implications for his young daughter and unfaithful wife. And in Greenfly, a housebound woman is driven to distraction by the insects infesting her house - putting strain on an already fractured relationship with her partner. Lee's stories announce the arrival of a writer whose vision is razor sharp, blackly funny and startlingly original.

Peach

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Author : Emma Glass
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-01-11

Peach written by Emma Glass and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-11 with Fiction categories.

_______________ SELECTED BY THE INDEPENDENT AND THE OBSERVER AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 _______________ 'An immensely talented young writer ... Her fearlessness renews one's faith in the power of literature ' - George Saunders, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize 'Poetic' - Independent 'The language is scintillating, the emotional heft remarkable' - Observer 'Daring' - Sunday Times 'Ferocious, startling, all-consuming' - Daisy Johnson, author of Fen _______________ Peach is a teenage girl like any other. She has college, and her friends, and her parents and the new baby, and her gorgeous boyfriend Green. She has her friend Sandy, and Sid the cat, and homework to do. But something has happened – something unspeakable – and her world has become unfamiliar, fractured into strange textures and patterns. Reeling through her refracted universe, Peach knows that the people she loves are in danger, real danger. If she is not to be swallowed whole, Peach must summon all her courage and dig deep into something nameless and strange that lies within her. _______________ 'Powerfully felt, sinister, vivid' - Literary Review 'This is a book to be devoured in a single sitting. Glass is an exciting new author to know' - Vogue 'An impressive achievement' - Big Issue

The Adulterants

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Author : Joe Dunthorne
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-02-08

The Adulterants written by Joe Dunthorne and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-08 with Fiction categories.

Fresh, sharp and wickedly funny, a tragicomic tale of modern living from the author of Submarine Ray is not a bad guy. He mostly did not cheat on his heavily pregnant wife. He only sometimes despises every one of his friends. And though his career as a freelance tech journalist is dismal and he spends his afternoons churning out third-rate listicles in his boxer briefs, he dreams of making a difference. But Ray is about to learn that his special talent is for making things worse. Brace yourself for a wickedly funny look at the modern everyman. The Adulterants is an uproarious tale of competitively sensitive men and catastrophic open marriages, riots on the streets of London and Internet righteousness, and one man's valiant quest to come of age in his thirties. With lacerating wit and wry affection, Joe Dunthorne dissects the urban millennial psyche of a man too old to be an actual millennial.