Cygnet
'A clear-sighted, poignant rumination on loneliness, love, the melancholy of age'
$32.65
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
4 April 2019
Summary
WINNER OF THE WRITERS’ GUILD FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2020
*ELLE* ONES TO WATCH 2019
‘Terribly moving. A clear-sighted, poignant rumination on loneliness, love, the melancholy of age and of youth’ - China Mieville
‘An imaginative, atmospheric and original novel that lingers in the memory long after reading’ - Bernadine Evaristo
‘A sad, funny, highly original novel’ - Blake Morrison
‘Wholeheartedly enjoy(able)’ - Lauren Wilkins…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349700328 |
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| ISBN-10: | 034970032X |
| Author: | Season Butler |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | Dialogue Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 4 April 2019 |
| Weight: | 380g |
| Dimensions: | 218mm x 142mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
Coming-of-age fiction is a well-established genre but I doubt there’s ever been a novel in which the narrator turns 18 on an island exclusively occupied by oldsters. And not since Holden Caulfield have I been so captivated by a first-person voice as the one Season Butler creates in Cygnet: ‘kiddo’ or ‘small-fry’ as the Wrinklies call her is super-bright but also naive, tough-minded but also vulnerable, self-reliant but also adrift. How long will she remain on the island? How long will the island itself remain, increasingly eroded by the ocean as it is? Will her parents arrive in time to celebrate her birthday? We don’t know, but this sad, funny, highly original novel keeps us turning the pages to find out - Blake Morrison, Author of Things my Mother Never Told Me
Season Butler is an extraordinary writer. In this wonderful novel the narrative voice is rhythmic and compelling, telling a coming of age story which resonates with our times. Like Colson Whitehead, her work is fearless in its inventiveness. I’ve always thought Season was the real deal, this book proves that she has arrived - Julia Bell, Author, The Dark LightTerribly moving. A clear-sighted, poignant rumination on loneliness, love, the melancholy of age and of youth - and, in its quiet way, the end of the world - China MievilleAbout The Author
Season Butler
Season Butler is a writer, artist and dramaturg born in Washington, DC. Through her work, she explores her interest in identity and otherness, the opportunities and traps of hindsight and hope, and what it means to look forward to an increasingly wily future. An early draft of Cygnet was shortlisted for the SI Leeds Prize for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian Women. She lives and works between London and Berlin.
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