Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good: Shortlisted for the 2025 Dylan Thomas Prize
Language: English
Published by Fourth Estate, 2024
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- Title
- Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good: Shortlisted for the 2025 Dylan Thomas Prize
- Author
- Williams, Eley
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0008618933
- ISBN 13
- 9780008618933
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE
A Granta Best Young British Novelist
'A thrilling love for the stuff of language … Magical' JON McGREGOR
‘Poignant and playful’DAILY MAIL
‘A writer with few real rivals’IRISH TIMES
'A visionary writer' JAN CARSON
The stunning new collection of stories from the award-winning author of The Liar’s Dictionary and Attrib. and Other Stories.
Granta Best Young British novelist and acclaimed author of Attrib. and other stories, Eley Williams returns with a thrilling collection of short stories exploring the nature of relationships both intimate and transient – from the easy gamesmanship of contagious yawns to the horror of a smile fixed for just a second too long.
A courtroom sketch artist delights in committing portraits of their lover to paper but their need to capture likenesses forever is revealed to have darker, more complex intentions. A child’s schoolyard crush on a saint marks a confrontation with the reality of a teenage body in flux. Elsewhere, an editor of canned laughter loses their confidence and seeks divine intervention, and an essayist annotates their thoughts on Keats by way of internet-gleaned sex tips.
Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good hums with fossicking language and ingenious experiments in form and considers notions of playfulness, authenticity and care as it holds relationships to account: their sweet misunderstandings, soured reflections, queer wish fulfilments and shared, held breaths.
‘Undeniably a skilful book’TELEGRAPH
‘Stories that work from the inside out… glancing,intriguing’GUARDIAN
'Erudite and audacious' KEIRAN GODDARD
‘Frequently brilliant and deeply pleasurable’ CAOILINN HUGHES
‘I don’t know anyone else who can write like this … What a joy!' BEN PESTER
‘A joy for the head and the heart' RUBY COWLING
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About the Author
Eley Williams' collection of fiction Attrib. and Other Stories (2017) was awarded the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her novel The Liar's Dictionary won a 2021 Betty Trask Award, was shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and listed as a Guardian Book of the Year. In 2023, she was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. Her writing is published in journals and anthologies including Modern Queer Poets, The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story edited by Philip Hensher, and Liberating the Canon edited by Isabel Waidner, with stories and serialised fiction also commissioned by Radio 4. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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