Description
The debut novel, never-before-published in the UK, from bestselling author Alexander Chee, told with 'the force of a dream and the heft of a life' (Annie Dillard, Publisher's Weekly)
About the Author
Alexander Chee is the bestselling author of the novels The Queen of the Night and Edinburgh. He is a contributing editor at the New Republic, an editor at large at Virginia Quarterly Review, and a critic at large at the Los Angeles Times. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays 2016, The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Guernica, and Tin House, among others. He is an associate professor of English at Dartmouth College. alexanderchee.net @alexanderchee
Reviews
Exquisite ... Heavy with portent, the narrative unspools with the somnambulant, hypnotic heft of a myth hurtling towards its heady denouement ... Achingly beautiful * Financial Times *
A bold and hard-hitting novel, but one written with sensitivity and held together with delicately threaded imagery * Glasgow Herald *
Edinburgh has the force of a dream and the heft of a life * Annie Dillard *
Impressionistic, palpable, nuanced, beautifully written and challenging * Attitude *
Haunting ... Complex ... Sophisticated ... [Chee] says volumes with just a few incendiary words * New York Times *
Beautifully imagined and executed ... Profound and poetic ... Chee's is a voice worth listening to * San Francisco Chronicle *
Alexander Chee gets my vote for the best new novelist I've read in some time. Edinburgh is moody, dramatic - and pure * Edmund White *
A coming-of-age novel in the grand Romantic tradition, where passions run high, Cupid stalks Psyche, and love shares the dance floor with death ... A lovely, nuanced, never predictable portrait of a creative soul in the throes of becoming * Washington Post *
Few coming-of-age novels truly stir one's emotions or lead readers to consider the trauma of their own lives. Edinburgh does both * Newsday *
Book Information
ISBN 9781526609144
Author Alexander Chee
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 204g