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Offseason: 'Phenomenal' MADELINE CASH, author of LOST LAMBS

Avigayl Sharp

4 Reviews

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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

A savage, hilarious and profound debut novel from Paris Review and Granta contributor Avigayl Sharp

A blisteringly funny and transcendently deranged debut novel for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh, Patricia Lockwood and George Saunders 'Obscenely good and very funny' CATHERINE LACEY
'A startling fever dream of a novel' LUCY ROSE
'So smart, weird and eerie . . . 'I recommend everyone buy it when it comes out' MADELINE CASH

In Offseason, our fiercely observant but self-deluded narrator finds herself teaching at an all-girls boarding school in a remote coastal town.

In between manic lectures that veer from Charles Dickens's Bleak House to the childhood maltreatment of her beloved Iosif Stalin and the generational legacy of the Holocaust, she implicates everyone she meets in her quest to pin down where exactly her own life went wrong.

Blisteringly funny and transcendently deranged, Offseason marks the arrival of a wild new literary talent.

'Indescribably brilliant . . . You've never read anything like it' ELIZABETH McCRACKEN

'A bonkers and beautifully written novel . . . Absorbing and original' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS

'Yes, Offseason is hilarious, eccentric and gleefully mean-spirited, but just when you think you know what Sharp is doing, she will shatter your heart. I haven't read something so incisive, so slyly tender in years' LISA McINERNEY

'A narrator who makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar' MICHAEL CHABON

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Praise for Offseason: 'Phenomenal' MADELINE CASH, author of LOST LAMBS

  • Avigayl Sharp is, quite simply, a mind-bogglingly brilliant writer, profound and hilarious, exciting and thought-provoking, unafraid and original: you've never read anyone like her

  • An obscenely good and very funny debut about the black hole of building your identity around the worst things that have ever happened to you. Unhinged in the best way

  • Offseason, full of voice, reads like Sharp's been writing novels for years . . . Hilariously deadpan, mordantly sardonic, Offseason is a knockout debut

  • To let us see the world reinvented through the eyes of a narrator who makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar, to have us laugh at what is painful and feel compassion when the narrator is lighting firecracker sentences to get us to look elsewhere - this is the eternal promise of the literary first novel. In Offseason, Avigayl Sharp fulfills that promise, amply, and with art and wit

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