Summary
‘Absolutely electric’ Garth Greenwell
‘A major talent’ Financial Times
**‘Reminiscent of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History’ New Yorker
Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall fall in love at university.
Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn’t tell anyone she blames herself for her mother’s recent death.
Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers from Bible college.
But a ch…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349011882 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349011885 |
| Author: | R.O. Kwon |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 23 July 2019 |
| Weight: | 193g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 20mm |
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An impressive , assured debut about the hope for personal and political revolution and all the unexpected ways it flickers out. Kwon has vital things to say about the fraught times we live in
Fairy-tale quality reminiscent of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History - New Yorker
The Incendiaries is a book of careful feints - the emphases in the story never fall where you expect, but Kwon is always in total control … a startlingly assured book by an important new writer - Guardian, Book of the DayA pulsating, hypnotic debut novel … Kwon’s subject is not so much love and betrayal - though both forces arepresented as elementally destructive - as the power of religion, and the grieving that engulfs thosewho lose faith. She understands what a believer will do to retain her sense of belonging, to never belonely again … The Incendiaries packs a disruptive charge, and introduces RO Kwon as a major talent - Financial TimesWhat an intriguing novel. Told in spare, revealing prose from the three central characters’ points of view, it makes the reader look again at faith, fanaticism and identity - Daily MailRadiant … a dark, absorbing story of how first love can be as intoxicating and dangerous as religious fundamentalism … - New York Times Book ReviewAn impressive, assured debut about the hope for personal and political revolution and all the unexpected ways it flickers out. Kwon has vital things to say about the fraught times we live inThe Incendiaries is a God-haunted, willful, strange book written with a kind of savage elegance. I’ve said it before, but now I’ll shout it from the rooftops: R. O. Kwon is the real dealEvery explosive requires a fuse. That’s R. O. Kwon’s novel, a straight, slow-burning fuse. To read her novel is to follow an inexorable flame coming closer and closer to the object it will detonate-the characters, the crime, the story, and, ultimately, the readerAbout The Author
R.O. Kwon
R. O. Kwon is the author of the bestselling novel The Incendiaries, which was named a best book of the year by more than forty publications and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award. With Garth Greenwell, Kwon coedited the bestselling Kink, a New York Times Notable Book. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, New York Times, New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere. Born in Seoul, Kwon has lived most of her life in the United States.
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