I Am No One - Softcover

Flanery, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782397981 ISBN 13: 9781782397984

Publisher: Atlantic Books, 2017

Synopsis

Jeremy O'Keefe, a middle-aged Professor, returns to his native New York after a decade teaching at Oxford, and quickly settles into a lonely rhythm of unfulfilling lectures and long, silent evenings. His quiet world is suddenly shaken by a series of encounters with a strange young man who presumes an acquaintance, and the arrival of three mysterious packages. And when a haunting figure starts to linger outside his apartment at night, his chilling conviction that he is being watched is seemingly confirmed. As Jeremy's grip on reality shifts and turns, he fears that he will never know whether he can believe his experiences, or whether his mind is in the grip of an irrational obsession. I Am No One explores the world of surveillance and self-censorship in our post-Snowden lives, where privacy no longer exists and our freedoms are inexorably eroded. Product Information: ISBN: 9781782397984 Author: Patrick Flanery Publisher: Atlantic Books Format: Paperback Pages: 336 Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm

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A passionate, gripping, brilliantly voiced and scintillatingly intelligent novel about that cancer afflicting modern democratic states - the surveillance of its own people. Were we ever told that democracy would entail this? I Am No One will get under your skin, leave you jittery and unsettled, and have you looking over your shoulder. Author: Neel Mukherjee, author of THE LIVES OF OTHERS, shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Costa Novel Awards 2014 and won the Encore Award 2015

Flanery is a master of puzzling, alarming and even terrifying storytelling. Author: A.S Byatt Source: Guardian

[Flanery is] gloriously talented Source: The Guardian - fiction highlights for 2016

[A] superbly entertaining novel... a brilliant work of suspense... Its relevance today is without question, and its du jour subject matter is persuasively treated. Source: TLS

A hotly contemporary novel by a critically acclaimed American novelist about creeping paranoia in an age of mass surveillance. Source: The Independent: 'Best of 2016'

A masterful plot, a terrifying subject, and a gripping read. Source: Independent on Sunday

Patrick Flanery pulls off a rarity in the age of compartmentalized fiction: a novel of Pynchonesque paranoid ideas, wrapped in psychologically acute Jamesian prose, delivered by a gripping story worthy of Graham Greene. I Am No One is itself profoundly observant about the post-Snowden culture of surveillance, and the insights of this unsettling novel are ignored at our own peril. Author: Teddy Wayne

This is such a superb, addictive, startling read that it seeps into your psyche. Read I Am No One and look around you with trepidation at our post-Edward Snowden world. Source: The Herald

Disquieting... compelling Author: Lucy Daniel Source: Daily Telegraph

[Flanery is] the author of [three] thoughtful, meticulously written and slow burning thrillers Author: Gerard Woodward Source: Independent

From the Author

Patrick Flanery was born in California in 1975 and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. He studied Film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and earned a PhD in Twentieth-Century English Literature at the University of Oxford. He contributes articles to a number of academic journals and he has written for Slightly Foxed, the Daily Telegraph and The Times Literary Supplement. He has published two novels to critical acclaim, Absolution in 2012 and Fallen Land in 2013. He lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1782397981
• ISBN 13: 9781782397984
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352